To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile to the world. In my case, it didn't work. I'm the same old punk ass as ever. But there's always this hope that it'll turn you into the person you want to be. You know, like a better, more peaceful person. And when I'm out on a long run, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going 'bleh bleh bleh bleh. ' Everything just quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow
These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.
As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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.
I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me. '
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.