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I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

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

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

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

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.