Quotes About Rebellion

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

Nobody can stop your reign. Nobody can tell you what's good, what's not good, how to talk, or how nasty your song can be. The song can be as nasty as you want to be, if that's what you want it to be.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.

I stopped caring about industry rules after my 'Shoebite' did not release.

Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.

I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.

I was a political hippie.

I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

I've always despised the hippies.

My parents were hippies.

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.