Quotes About Rebellion

I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.

Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

Bowie would show up with one eyebrow, so we all shaved our eyebrows.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.