Tony D'Souza Quotes

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

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

You can't be a punk all your life.

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

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.

My parents were hippies.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.