Quotes About Punk

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active role in the punk community. Most of them hung up their leather jacket when they did so.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

I was such a punk.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'

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

I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'

Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send poems to 'Radio Times,' short stories to the 'Observer,' just have a go.

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

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.