Quotes About Rebellion

In a certain way, rap music is alternative.

Although I had the label of being the 'pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,' I just broke the rules.

All rappers are princesses like me.

Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.

I was one of the rare guys who never wanted to sign a contract.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I like to rattle cages.

New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to show that I'm an educated person to exploit these certain things artistically and, in my opinion, in a very smart way - or am I just a punk rock brat that likes pushing people's buttons and relishing in the negative reaction? I can't tell.

I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn't think it was cool.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.