Ron Funches Quotes

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is combed, and I'm in a suit.

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

I've always been into looking different.

When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of combat boots and jeans and a beat-up T-shirt. I think of it as a uniform.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

My whole life is punk.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

We knew of Sartre and we dressed like the French existentialists. Our philosophy then, and remember we were only little kids, was more in following their looks than their thoughts. We were going around looking moody.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

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