Scott Borchetta Quotes

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 dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

I always go against the odds.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

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

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.