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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.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

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.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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

Punk music is rebellious.

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.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.