Band Quote by Billy Bragg

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

— Kristian Bush

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

— Chuck Mosley

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that.…

— Kathleen Hanna

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

— Tim Gane

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

— Chester Bennington

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music…

— Daughn Gibson

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

— Steven Van Zandt

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe