Quotes About Rebellion

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

I listen to a lot of metal. I'm like a teenager - I make playlists with, like, 200 bands on them.

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Though I'm not a huge fan of The Rock, I admit that I am a fan of the fact that he does his own thing. He gets excited on the mic. He yells. He didn't listen to what people told him to do, and people responded to that.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.

When MLW first called me, they said, 'Take a look at the product, see what you think, and see if you can make it even more edgy and more dangerous,' and give me a live microphone and I'm going to do that.

It was mid-life crisis time and you can't have more of a mid-life crisis than going off on a motorbike.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

In middle school, I wasn't allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline's SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

In middle school, one day this girl was like, 'One day you wore Abercrombie, and one day you wore Quicksilver.' I was like, 'Hold on... what?' I'm usually really calm, but I kind of went off on her. Because I decided to wear Quicksilver one day, you can't place me? How stupid to have to live inside that box.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

I was a militant.

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.