Quotes About Rebellion

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

When I went on to college, I was allowed to take flying, as my mother had dearly loved flying and her father wouldn't allow her to, so they encouraged me then to go on into my aviation career.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I'm very fond of drugs.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

I never forbid myself anything.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.