Quotes About Rebellion

I don't always take off my make-up before bed, and I like pizza at two in the morning.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Sometimes you've got to break the rules to make money, that's just plain and simple.

I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

I would have liked to behave badly, to play football. I loved sport. But all my family were working for me to succeed.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

God, I hate the whole ladette thing. The more distance I get and look back at my party days, the more I'm kinda pleased I did it because it's the last thing I'd want to do now.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.