Justin Sane Quotes

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than I did at school, because that got me into fashion, politics.

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.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

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

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

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

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.