Punk Quotes

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.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

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.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.

Some of the punks didn’t know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn’t worry about what anyone was going to think.