Quotes About Rebellion

We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

I guess the all-American presentation of what a player is supposed to stand for is not what I am.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

I was a very lame skinhead. I had to be in by 8:30 P. M., so I used to pretend that I had a baby sister I had to go home and baby-sit.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.

I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.

Conformity is dangerous.

I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.

I've dated bad girls in my time.

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.

The '80s were a lost decade.

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.