MO Quotes

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.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

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.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

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.

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

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

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

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

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

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

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

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

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

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.