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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

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

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.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

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.

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.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.