Quotes About Defiance

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

Why do you all push us around?

There are more and more of us women out there who won't be pushed around and will give back a lot more than was bargained for. You have to mean it, though.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.