I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

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

— Billy Idol

Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a writer to…

— Randy Orton

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there,…

— Mark Hoppus

I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail…

— Ted Nugent

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another…

— Todd Rundgren

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound.…

— Debbie Harry

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's…

— Milo Aukerman

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Van Hunt

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

“It's shit punk.[..] That doesn't mean I think punk is shit [...] it means that when someone plays unk ina shit-like manner, it's excruciating.…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Shepard Fairey