Avril Lavigne Quotes

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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 like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

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

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Bryce," she whispers. "What's wrong." I can barely breathe as I ask her, "Do you like him?" "Do I... you mean Jon?" "Yes!" "Well, sure. He's nice and -" "No, do you like him?" My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited. "Well, no. I mean, not like that...." No! She said no! I didn't care where I was, I didn't care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then...

You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.