Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.
Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody was doing that style of music.
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.
Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.
I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.
I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.
I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything.
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 never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands.
I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
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.
I love 'Ocean Avenue' by Yellowcard. That's always been one of my favorites.
I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.
I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.
There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.
My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.
I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.
I'm so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I'm obsessed with him.
