Better Quote by Michael Caputo

You can't be a punk all your life.

— Ben Eine

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

— Kurt Vile

A real punk is punk on the inside.

— Mark Hoppus

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

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

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that.…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

— Mike Oldfield

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people…

— Avril Lavigne

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

— Fred Armisen

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

— Henry Rollins

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

— Billy Bragg