Quotes About Rebellion

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

I still feel about 22. I don't understand, actually. I mean, as I got older, I thought there would be things like, 'I need a house now', 'I need kids', 'I need a licence to drive', but I have never really had that happen. I guess that forms part of my appeal for the people who like the stuff I do: I'm not a real person - I'm a gypsy.

Me and my dad were so much alike that we would just butt heads. I pretty much hated him from the age of 16 to 24 for no real reason.

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

I shaved my eyebrows in 10th grade.

I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Me, I like to go against the grain.