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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

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.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.