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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

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