Leadership Quote by Rachel Cohn

“Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible…

— Legs McNeil

“Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you know, that…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I had an idea for an Amish punk band.”

— Édouard Levé

“Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you’re young, you probably hate it at some point, but it never…

— Frank Turner

“Like my outfit? I’m going for counterculture. By showing up to a punk rock concert in the least punk-aesthetic outfit possible, I’m the most…

— Alexandra Martin

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

“In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.”

— Kate Rockland

“I think a cool band name would be War Dwarf. Of course, I’m entirely too tall and peaceful to be a member. Not to…

— Jarod Kintz

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that…

— Vivienne Westwood

“Someone who finally wasn’t afraid to say what everyone else was thinking: why the fuck were we out here, playing cat and mouse games,…

— Callie Hart

“No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

— Caitlin Moran