Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel. " But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.
People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.
It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.
My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.