DIY Attitude Quotes

I build a lot of stuff, but I'm not a 'construction guy.' But I'm one of these guys that sits with his hands on his hips and tells you I'm gonna fix everything.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

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

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

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

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I don't feel like I should pay somebody to do something that I can do.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

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

Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways.