Quotes About Punk

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

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

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

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows at a punk house in Crown Heights called The Fort where, amongst many roommates, my friend Johnny lived. Johnny loves The Germs, the legendary L.A. punk band fronted by the late, great Darby Crash.

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don't understand it, but I love metal.

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

Hunx is kind of just, like, a really trashy punk band, honestly.

There's one side of me that just wants to get up on stage and be punk and go crazy and stuff like that; and there's also this other side of me that's like a grandma - really into arts and crafts.

Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more into punk ska - Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do.