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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 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 was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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 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.
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.
I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
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.
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.