Brad Stone Quotes

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

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.

I've always been in a rebel.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

We've always been a nation of heretics.

I want to break standards.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I like breaking the rules.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

I like rules that are broken.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

My fans like the rebel in me.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.