Quotes About Nonconformity

When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I don't want to follow the herd.

There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I can't do the conventional heroine's role.

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.

When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

A lunatic is just a minority of one.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

Sanity is not statistical

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl.

You see, I am not pretty, not in the least, never was, and so I have to be odd. Nothing for it! It answers delightfully.

Nothing doing. I've no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I've never wanted to look noble, and I won't be made to. -- Neville Fletcher

Vicky had enlivened the Sabbath by coming down to breakfast in abbreviated tennis-shorts, and a sleeveless shirt.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.