Care Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

— Anonymous

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the…

— Greg Ginn

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

— Martin Popoff

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 absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

— Lady Gaga

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

— Kurt Vile

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

— Toyah Willcox

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to…

— Anonymous

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

— Hunx

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks…

— Billie Joe Armstrong