Quotes About Nonconformist

I'm not a girly girl. I never have been.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Think off-center.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I'm a classical liberal. A free thinker.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

I'm supposed to be the rebellious one, l'enfant terrible.

Dat was een van de eigenschappen die Karina zo in het meisje waardeerde: ze was tegendraads, en Karina hield van tegendraads.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

I'm not a reactionary.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

Think off center.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

You are the most unscottified of your countrymen.

I'm eccentric, yes, but I'm not insane.

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch." ? Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.

He's the maverick of the firm, the one who breaks the rules.