I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior. - Hayley Williams
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk. - Beth Ditto
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion. - Kurt Cobain
Y'know, when I first started listening to punk rock music, I used to get my fucking ass kicked for it! I was known as a fucking freak! But now I'm amongst many many many freaks here with me tonight! - Billie Joe Armstrong,Stay The Night, Reading Festival 2013 - Green Day
Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk? - Gerard Way
Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. - Garth Risk Hallberg
Non sono mica tanto diversi, il jazz e il punk, si diceva alle volte. Pensaci, c'è la stessa emarginazione, dentro, la stessa rabbia. E c'è l'eroina dietro a tutti e due. - Enrico Brizzi
Weird Al Yankovic is the closest thing America has to Punk Rock. - Kurt Cobain
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God - Billy Corgan
Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad. - Aurelio Voltaire Hernández
Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process. - Dominic Owen Mallary
Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am. - Joey Ramone