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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 like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

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.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

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.

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.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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

People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

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.