A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!

Billie Joe Armstrong

We're like, Fisher-Price: My First Punk Band.

Blink 182

Weird Al Yankovic is the closest thing America has to Punk Rock.

Kurt Cobain

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

She was the first punk woman.

Jean paul Gaultier

We knew coming in that Virginia was a tough team ... that's their identity. But they were coming to our house and we weren't going to let anybody punk us in our house. We weren't going to let them out-tough us here.

Sam Perry

(It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French version of punk which means a kind of bourgeois. A little chic, elegant and (some kind of) accident (can) happen.

Jean paul Gaultier

Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!

Deryck Whibley

We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, we're just a rock band doing what we do.

Ben Windsor

My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too angry.

Leigh Whannell

Pop punk today isn't going anywhere.

Will Pugh

It felt like so many things were coming together with his music. It was an acknowledgement that Parallax was being welcomed into the broader punk scene on a national level.

Laura Hamblin

I grew tired of that [pop-punk], knowing that I had something more meaningful to offer. Sound cliché? It is.

Travis Gerke

We call ourselves a punk rock band, but we really play stuff from before there was punk to after there was punk. We're more in the vein of what I would call anti-establishment rock 'n' roll.

John Sherry

We all sort of came at it from weird angles. Most of the guys in the band played rock music, punk rock, before this. I have a degree in English that I don't use very much anymore. That kind of thing is maybe good for serving you coffee in the morning these days.

Rob Bullington

You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

Clint Eastwood

Just because some punk kids talk crap to security guards and old ladies and happen to have skateboards in their hands doesn't mean we're all that way. I've met mean security guards and mean old ladies. Anyone can be mean.

Derek Bishop

We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play.

Aaron Baer

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience.

John Doe

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. Whem they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

Michael Stipe

Punk is the root of this. Everything else is an offshoot. Some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. The best bands rise to the top.

Kevin Lyman

Style has always been very important to us, ... We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Nick Rhodes

We're definitely hoping for that. And I feel like especially Ryan made more of a conscious effort than I think maybe he needed to kind of get away from that (pop-punk sound).

Sean Mackin

We're a punk band, not so much from a sound perspective, but I still feel like we maintain a punk approach to what we do. But (punk) is not the most accepting community, it's really rather conservative. So we felt like we had to go against that.

Aaron Warren

That's exactly how we wanted it to be. And I think they knew what they were signing. At this point, I'm convinced that they didn't sign us to try to mold us into something we're not. They knew they were signing a political punk band that had things they wanted to say.

Justin Sane

Massive Attack hasn't played out here in nine years. Daft Punk hasn't played in eight-and-half years.

Paul Tollett

We don't want to be a three cord punk band we don't even call ourselves punk.

Deryck Whibley

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Jello Biafra

We had traces of our music that could be liked by the punk scene or the hardcore scene, ... But that was what people did with us; they said they could put us out on tour with anybody because 'nobody really knows what you guys are. You got some of this, you got some of that, it will probably work, let's see what happens.'

Claudio Sanchez

Let's just say the government is telling the truth and I'm the boss, ... Let's just say the government is telling the truth and this guy is the boss. ... I would have to tell this guy that I made my son. ... This is the government feeding this -- -- punk .

John Gotti

Feeling lucky punk? Oh, good.

Joe Strummer

What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

Siouxsie Sioux

You either fight or you get a reputation as a punk sucker.

David Gonzalez

Were you a punk?

Dick Enberg

With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.

Jacoby Shaddix

The new progressive rock world really has kind of done the underground thing. It's like what punk rock did in the late '70s.

Jim Robinson

We have a saying on this team that we're not going to let anybody come in here and punk us.

Sam Perry

Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories.

Mary Harron

Bush getting elected was good for punk music. Now people have something to get pissed off about.

Mike Burkett

He's a mess, and he's a loudmouth punk.

Don Imus

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

Gary Numan

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

Gary Numan

Rancid are real punk-rock dudes, you know, but they came out with the opposite attitude.

Chuck Comeau

He was such a punk when he was a kid, ... It can be hard growing up in front of the public that way, and I always admire people who handle that with grace.

Ethan Hawke

Here and there. Lots of kids nowadays listen to primarily newer punk bands, and I definitely can't say I'm not guilty of that.

Eric Myers