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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
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.
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
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.
When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.