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What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active role in the punk community. Most of them hung up their leather jacket when they did so.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.