Quotes About Defiance

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Our nation is too strong and too good to let one man tear down everything we stand for. I refuse to let Donald Trump take our country backwards.

The lion doesn't care that the sheep laugh at him. Remember that. The lion just stays there. The animals make noise and tease. The guy with the belt is the lion.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

Edgy' music has always formed the cornerstone to any teenage rebellion. Most indulge in it precisely because adults like me don't like them doing so.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

When you're a teenager, you think you're invincible. You don't listen to anyone.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I'm told I'm a statistic. I'm told that my young black sisters are disease-ridden... but we are greater than what society tells us we are.