Band Quote by Tim Heidecker

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands,…

— Laura Jane Grace

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government…

— Davey Havok

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

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

— Anton Yelchin

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just…

— Chris McCaughan

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 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 started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have…

— Yann Tiersen

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls…

— Kate Nash

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that…

— Vic Fuentes

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really…

— Bucky Pope