Quotes About Rebellion

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

I would skate in the '80s. I started skating with Jordan 1s, and that was a big deal. I looked different, because no one was getting with Jordan 1s. That became my little thing. I grew up in Hollywood.

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff that's not meant to be skated.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, but, yup, dad does like to break rules.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.