Lawrence Osborne Quotes

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

I just don't conform very well.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

I don't care much about conforming.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.