Kate Nash Quotes

I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

I was a huge punker growing up.

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

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

I was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.

I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.

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.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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.