Viv Albertine Quotes

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I naturally want to be provocative.

I'm a provocateur.

I'm a provocateur.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

To be a little divisive is kind of hot.

Well, 'Problematic' was the opposite of a show that was nostalgic and a light fluffy look at life. We were literally trying to kick a hornets' nest, and I don't know how effectively we did or didn't do that.

Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.

I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

God sent me to piss the world off!

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

I'm not looking to shock anyone.

I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.