Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
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?
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.
Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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