Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery… it’s about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. – John Lydon
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all. – Billy Bragg
I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too – like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice. – Alice Dellal
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. – Billy Bragg
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. – Anthony Kiedis
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven’t read any of them. I was there. – Greg Ginn
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk – that is confrontational. That’s just a part of the language of jazz – at a certain point. – Matthew Shipp
Daft Punk wouldn’t have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it. – Danger Mouse
Teachers didn’t like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out. – Clea Duvall
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn’t a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair
