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I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue, before anybody was dip-dyeing their hair. And streaks of pinks and purples and whatnot.

— Leigh Lezark

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

— Ben Lovett

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

— Corey Taylor

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

— Vivienne Westwood

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

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

— Tim Gane

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.

— Travis Barker

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.

— Rick Rubin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

— Ric Ocasek