Neil Tennant Quotes

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.

In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

I might run, or I might take up with the gigolo and move to Brazil.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'