Quotes About Rebellion

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred.

I used to eat under my grandmother's dining room table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10.

I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

I defy gravity.

Gravy Train!!!! damaged me because I don't think I will ever again experience something so intense and exciting. We were so young and pent up - and didn't care about anything else in the world.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it came on the radio my mum just drove right past the school gates! When you're 11 years old and meant to be going back to boarding school, that's a great feeling.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is true.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.