Style has always been very important to us, ... We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Bush getting elected was good for punk music. Now people have something to get pissed off about.