'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.
A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.