Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
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.
I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.
On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.
I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.
Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.
I so love the bad-boy look.
Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.
I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.
In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative - edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.
I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."
Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'
