Quotes About Rebellion

I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.

I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

I wasn't a good kid. I didn't hurt anybody, but I was doing things kids do that they shouldn't.

If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun!

I think I started going clubbing when I was 14. I remember I made a fake ID and laminated it myself. I forget what the name on it was, but I remember it was something so stupid. We went to Kinko's to do it.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.