Competition Quote by John Lydon

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

— Ben Hopkins

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active…

— Greg Graffin

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

— Shepard Fairey

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

— Henry Rollins

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

— Adore Delano

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with…

— Jello Biafra

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

— Patrick Stump

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 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's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

— Malcolm Mclaren