When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.