Quotes About Nonconformity

I hate matching stuff.

What matters to everybody else don't matter to me.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

There is no right way to do life.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

I am no one's role model.

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.

I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.

I don't take well to rules.

I like to play by my own rules.

I stay out of typecasting ruts.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

Most people satisfy their appetite when they sit down to eat. I'm not most people.

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.