Stephen Fry Quotes

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

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.

I've always been in a rebel.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

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

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

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

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.