Quotes About Rebellion

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can't communicate.

I ran away at 15 to chase a guy that I met who would become my boyfriend, and he was living in L.A.

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.