Christopher Heyerdahl Quotes

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

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

Seventh grade was the first time I dyed my hair, and I went to school with red and black stripes, so I looked like a zebra.

I can stand up for what I believe in. I don't take the word 'rebel' in a negative connotation.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

I wanted to wear fingerless gloves at my confirmation. I think I always wanted to be different and felt very stifled at school.

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

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype. And it's a natural inclination in a world where it's so complex and so occasionally valueless, morally bankrupt, and chaotic that we want to reach back to something in our past.

I'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of BBQ ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and buskets of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?

I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.