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Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.

Punk music is rebellious.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

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

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

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