Casey Neistat Quotes

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

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.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Kurt Cobain really made an impression on us. He just had that rebel attitude. You could tell he was super talented but didn't really care.

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.

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.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

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

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

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.

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

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

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

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

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

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

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

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.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.