The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes. — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
“never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.” — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different… — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance… — Hanneli Mustaparta Copy Share Image
Goth is dead, punk is dead, and rock n' roll is dead. Trends are dead. Nothing exists anymore because the world is… — Poppy Copy Share Image
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way… — Alice Bag Copy Share Image
“Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal… — Fernando A. Flores Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but… — Marcus Gray Copy Share Image
Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
