Quotes About Independence

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? - and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially.

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

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

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

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

MySpace was so punk.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.