Quotes About Provocative

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Jesus' philosophy in life seemed to be, "Let's confuse as many people for as long as we can". He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.