Glenn Danzig Quotes

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I look like a sweet, corn-fed kid. My roles are my rebellion.

I want to break standards.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

I've always been in a rebel.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

I wasn't a rebel.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

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

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

We never want to toe the line.