24 Quotes by Jack Bowman

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.