Early Quote by Davey Havok

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

— Aleister Black

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive…

— Bill Ward

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

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

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music…

— Daughn Gibson

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on…

— Travis Barker

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

— Tim Heidecker

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead…

— Langhorne Slim

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early…

— Andy Biersack

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

— Tim Gane

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