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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.

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.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I'm influenced by all types of music.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.