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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

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.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.