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I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.