Jerry Garcia Quotes

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

I don't really give a f**k about the mainstream. The mainstream doesn't offer me anything. Why would I offer it anything? I love the world I have. I love the sort of subculture that Green Day represents.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

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

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

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

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

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

I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

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

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.

L.A. is kind of flat these days; I guess Austin and other places are like that now. But that's what I wanted to get across: You could be as crazy as you wanted, and that was OK. You didn't have to be good; people would still come and hear you.

If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I've always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it's been the Internet.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you.