Quotes About Youth

Austin Theory's young, super-talented and thinks he's the cat's meow. But I'm just going to punish him. It's going to be pretty funny to see his eyes after the first few minutes when he realizes that there's nowhere to run.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

When I was young, I would dwell on games and beat myself up about a result. I would lock myself away in the house, almost punishing myself and those around me.

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

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

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

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

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

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.