Punks bust in, you shoot ‘em. You do the right thing.

I love punks!

— Kate Nash

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true,…

— Bryce Dessner

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

— John K. Samson

“Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing…

— Matthew Power

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

— Trevor Dunn

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls…

— Kate Nash

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

Remember all those times I stood by your side, gave you evrything, gave my life, when things got tough, all you did was run,…

— Mike Hoods

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and music. I'd wandered in late to the punk…

— Grant Morrison

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

— Hunter S. Thompson

We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We…

— Beth Ditto

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

— Roland Orzabal

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on…

— John Lydon