Angelina Jolie Quotes

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

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

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

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.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo.