Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

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.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

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

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

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

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

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.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.