Boxes Quote by Madonna Ciccone

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

Punk rock is being honest, believing in yourself and doing what you gotta do. That's all.

— Marky Ramone

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

A real punk is punk on the inside.

— Mark Hoppus

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Mike Watt

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Nick Lowe

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

— Joe Strummer

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

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