Always Quote by Leigh Lezark

I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then…

— Katie McGrath

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

— Gary Oldman

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

— Ben Lovett

My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper's band,…

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in piano since…

— Kat Von D

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

— Joshua Mohr

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

— Tony Palermo

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

— Ric Ocasek

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

— Machine Gun Kelly

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

— Kurt Cobain

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

— Venetian Snares

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

— Ian Brown