Boring Quote by Michael Ian Black

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

— Vivienne Westwood

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland

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 never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there,…

— Mark Hoppus

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

— Adore Delano

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

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 is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

— JPEGMAFIA

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

— Patrick Stump

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

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 a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls,…

— Iggy Pop