Hideaki Itsuno Quotes

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

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.

I was a choir boy at school, then when the choir became less cool, I became a kind of rock star in my own world.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

My God is rock'n'roll.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

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

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

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 have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

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

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

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

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.