Judd Nelson Quotes

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

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

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

I've always been in a rebel.

I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn't give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.