Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. And I always loved industrial music as well: I listened to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. And shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I knew that my love for the Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church and that kind of stuff, was never going to lend itself well to a direct interpretation in Black Veil Brides.

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this bad boy attitude and a softer, more emotional idea.

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

If I wasn't in the band, I'm a Zombie fan, and I'm a White Zombie fan.

In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite.

I've always been a Journey fan - since I was 12.

Yeah, I really like that band Deerhunter a lot.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

I really loved the hardcore alternative vibe Prince had on 'Dirty Mind.'