Punk Quotes

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.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

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

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

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

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

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.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

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

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

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

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.