Quotes About Subculture

Wrestling in Australia is big, but it's kind of underground.

I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.

We don't really want to be the 'Late Night' of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one foot in the underground.

Nailbomb was never really a big record. It's big in the underground. It's huge and it developed a big cult following.

You've got two sets of teenagers in England - the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar.

I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

I've always been attracted to the underworld.

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

Rock music is niche.

Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture.

There is a subculture in this country that seems to have no antecedent—a conflation of reality television, National Enquirer journalism, fundamentalist religion, militarism, and professional football. At the center is an adoration of celebrity, no matter how it is acquired or in what form it comes. Women

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

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.

We may have just slipped through some kind of white-trash worm-hole in the time-space continuum.