Quotes About Nonconformity

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

I'm going to redefine what it means to be sexy, and it's going to be creepy as hell. Because I could never do the 'sexy' way of being sexy.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

I'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

The first time I ever put on a cowboy hat for a video a lot of people on my team was like, 'Are you sure? You know, we don't want people we think we country.' I'm like, 'It's cute! I don't care what people think.'

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

I mean, I'm about having fun. I'm not about what other people say.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.