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.
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile 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.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.