Quotes About Rebellion

I can't imagine living in a time where us women had to dress like 'ladies' because that is what was expected of us.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

We love metal.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.