Band Quote by Brandon Thomas

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a…

— Brandon Thomas

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the…

— Mark Hoppus

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music…

— Kathleen Hanna

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

— Michelle Shocked

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a major label,…

— Laura Jane Grace

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

— Shavo Odadjian