Freddie Wong Quotes

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

By all means break the rules.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I don't want to follow the herd.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.