Band Quote by Luke Hemmings

I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo…

— John Rzeznik

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

— Carrie Brownstein

Initially, I didn't start out to be a member of a band. I wanted to make films, write plays, books. When I found myself…

— Jim Morrison

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a…

— Ezra Furman

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring…

— Dan Smith

When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way…

— Joe King

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the…

— Mark Hoppus

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a…

— Torquil Campbell

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a…

— Kevin Jonas

Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and…

— Brian Fallon

I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to sort of…

— Seth