Quotes About Rebellion

It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.

I try to force myself to close my mouth when I put mascara on. I don't want to be part of the masses!

I really liked the Seattle movement.

The hippy movement was a failure.

I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.

When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

The king must die so that the country can live.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.