High school Quote by Chad Gilbert

High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're…

— Steve Aoki

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays.…

— Carrie Brownstein

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening…

— Mike D

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and…

— Tyler Hilton

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

— Michelle Visage

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I…

— Henry Rollins

When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty…

— Doug Martsch

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later…

— Charlotte Caffey

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

— Adam Sandler

Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in…

— Daya

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just…

— Chris McCaughan