Subverting the System Quotes

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

It seems another way that skills learned in law school can be used for less-than-admirable ends.

Every human institution (justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.