Joan Baez Quotes

It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.

People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.

You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.

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.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

My God is rock'n'roll.

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.