Tom Noddy Quotes

There is a secret hippie within me.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

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

People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

I'm a modern-day hippie.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

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

I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

Whenever I see a girl in tie dye twirling, I'll say yes. I've arrived. I'm in the right place.

I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

Growing up, I've always made a point to not be placed in a box.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.