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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

My whole life is punk.

It's inspiring to see Black Flag looking like Vietnamese farmers with big beards and those kind of Vietnamese farming hats showing up at a Mohawk-mania club in England and being spat at because they don't sound or look like Exploited; they sound more like Black Sabbath than Black Flag. I love that.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't want anything to do with this.'

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."