Quotes About Rebellion

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

I play really bad punk rock guitar.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

I was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than I did at school, because that got me into fashion, politics.

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art. Here in the United States, those of us who pursue human flight are treated as criminals and are forced to travel abroad to seek one of man's most fundamental desires, to fly free.