grew up in Mount Vernon, in Westchester County, New York. So my experience of punk rock at a young age was very suburban. My parents wouldn’t let me go to the city, but once I turned eighteen, I was like a little bitch: “You can’t tell me, I’m eighteen!” So I started going to the city, shows at Brownies, Coney Island High, CBGB’s, Wetlands. All these places that are now defunct.
