Quotes About Rebellion

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

I had long, blond, wavy hair.

The most erratic thing I ever did was going blonde.

I've got revolutionary blood in my blood.

My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.

I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.