Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.
Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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.
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.
After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
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.
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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.
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.
I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.
I don't feel like I should pay somebody to do something that I can do.
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.
For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.
