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Punk music is rebellious.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

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

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 think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.