Audience Quote by Mike Oldfield

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

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person…

— Greil Marcus

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

— Patrick Stump

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and…

— Greg Graffin

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

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

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

— Richard Hell

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

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

— Joey Ramone

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— 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 very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland