Band Quote by John K. Samson

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk…

— Travis Barker

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

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Tim Gane

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

— Chuck Mosley

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

— Laura Jane Grace

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

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

— Anton Yelchin

My whole life is punk.

— Tyler Posey

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've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music…

— Kathleen Hanna