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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.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

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

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

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

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.

Punk music is rebellious.