Accident Quote by Chad Gilbert

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government…

— Davey Havok

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really…

— Bucky Pope

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird…

— Margaret Cho

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd…

— John Rzeznik

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and…

— John Petrucci

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and…

— John Corabi

I'd say a big transition as a kid was when I started to listen to Good Charlotte. They were like a rap-to-rock/punk group.

— Murda Beatz

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real…

— Glenn Branca

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always…

— Panos Cosmatos

... another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow,…

— Jeff Baxter

We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never…

— Chuck Comeau

I love the spirit of early pop punk and we incorporated that into our earlier albums.

— Luke Hemmings