Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.
Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
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