Quotes About Nonconformity

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I was very rebellious.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.

I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

I was a little rebellious growing up.

I do have a rebellious spirit.

We're skateboarders, we have rebellious ways.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

That is who my people are - the oddballs, the rebels, and the geeks. That's what I am, so it's what I naturally feel connected to.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.