Fred Armisen Quotes

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

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 am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

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

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.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

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.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'