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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

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

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

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.