Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.
I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.
Skating is what got me into punk rock.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.
I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.
People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.
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