Amy Grant Quotes

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

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

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I am a contrarian.

I never quite toed the line.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Our young people in increasing numbers are rejecting all forms or authority.