Quotes About Rebellion

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

I like girls who look like they never brush their hair. That's the key to real style.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

When I was 12, I introduced my mom to Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me.' I told her it was an amazing song, and I remember her not really agreeing with me.