“The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.”

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.

I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.

The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.

You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.

Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,

You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

I’ve not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I’ll listen to ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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.

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash.

My grandson says I’m punk.