Always Quote by Prabal Gurung

Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great…

— Boy George

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked…

— Dean Wareham

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

— Princess Nokia

In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be…

— Jello Biafra

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really…

— Bucky Pope

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

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

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made…

— Jello Biafra

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive…

— Bill Ward

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,…

— Stephen Mallinder

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring…

— Jane Wiedlin