Chuck Zito Quotes

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

Hell's Angels

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.

The tattoos, they were just something to do.

I do my own tattoos.

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.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

Hard to believe, I'm sure, but I am not a tattoo guy. Never had one and never will.

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.

My first tattoo was when I was 14. I was a bit young, like. I was a big lad so they didn't question my age at the time.

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for the poor, it's for the young.

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.

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."

My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

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.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.