Quotes About Rebellion

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

I didn't do well in school, and I didn't really care to cater to certain social structures that were in place to be cool.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

Growing up, a lot of people wore baggy stuff. I went in the opposite direction. Just trying to be different.

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had.

When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.