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I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

— Laura Jane Grace

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

— Ben Lovett

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

— Michelle Visage

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

— Lil Jon

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both…

— Rick Rubin

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

— Tom Morello

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

— Gustav Ejstes