Climate Quote by Greg Graffin

Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians…

— Jesse Michaels

“Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you’re young, you probably hate it at some point, but it never…

— Frank Turner

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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

There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green…

— Ed Kowalczyk

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

— Steve Winwood

Punk music is rebellious.

— Theophilus London

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

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

A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible…

— Steve Diggle

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

— Charlotte Caffey