“ And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played hi… Chuck Klosterman
“ Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion. Kurt Cobain
“ Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS! Legs McNeil Gillian McCain
“ Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it this way: 'Eat your heart out on a plastic t… Josh Kun
“ My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and music. I'd wandered in late to the punk party in 1978, when it was already over and the Sex Pistols… Grant Morrison
“ The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact. Jennifer Harrison
“ There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure. Brian Joyce
“ It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else. Brian Joyce
“ Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. Brian Joyce
“ I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days. Brian Joyce
“ All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore. Brian Joyce
“ That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until final… Brian Joyce
“ Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you’re young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is—it’s all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to… Brian Joyce
“ I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't… Brian Joyce
“ Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more. Brian Joyce
“ You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just… Brian Joyce
