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

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

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.

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

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

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