Quotes About Nonconformist

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

I am not a conventional candidate.

I don't want to go with conventional thinking.

I am not a conventional man.

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.

I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.

I'm not a Democrat.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

Stroller was eccentric, no doubt, but I'm one of those people for whom eccentric were made. I'm an appreciator of the offbeat

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

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.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.