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My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.
There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.
I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
You can mix and match, depending on your own mood, whether you want your look of the day to be casual, cool, or even punk.
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.
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 see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.
I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.
I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.
I would want to fight in the UFC or Bellator. Why CM Punk? Anyone, just a worthy adversary. It can't be a world-class fighter.
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.
I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.
When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'
There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
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'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel.
I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.
My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.
Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness."