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I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

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

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

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 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 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 punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.