Quotes About Rebellion

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

Political movements always belong to the young.

We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

If you don't like this, we don't care - I think that's the essence of what popular music should be.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.