Quotes About Youth

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

I was a bit of a rebel when I was young.

Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I've always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it's been the Internet.

I was a pretty good kid, but I also knew when it was worth breaking the rules. I don't think that makes you a rebel, though, because that's still exercising some type of caution.

I was never a rebel or anything like that early on.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

I think all kids are rebellious. It's a part of growing up.

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.

I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.