Quotes About Rebellion

What rock n' roll was supposed to be about was getting loose, enjoying it, going a little crazy, and not caring how you act or dress.

I'm not interested in being liked.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

I came into the game showing you that I'm no angel. I'm not perfect and this is why I tell people off the top.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

I would not like a king who could obey.

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people have forgotten that they are just rules that were invented for convenience - sometimes it is more convenient not to obey the rules.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.