Phil Elverum Quotes

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

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

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

I never really followed grunge.

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

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.

I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

I was not a metal fan.

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you could actually hear what Belinda was singing.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.