Punk Quotes

Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

Back in the garage with my bullshit detector.

Punk rockers can do anything, if punk rockers were running NASA we’d be drinking tea on the moon by now

I will remember McLaren for his intelligence, his use of language and his ability to catch a common thought and reshape it into a prescient phrase.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

The day the Sex Pistols ceased to exist was the day they became important and relevant. That's always the case.

Punk was this brilliant idea in which we made ugliness beautiful.

Punk was an idea. I try to make ideas happen. It was an idea that could change lives.