Anna Sui Quotes

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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

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

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

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.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

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

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

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

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

By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

I was a huge punker growing up.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

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

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

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

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.

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.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.