Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.

My look is relaxed, and while I love fashion, I don't obsess about it. I don't have set rules when it comes to dressing, and I don't mind where my clothes are from.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

I stopped caring about industry rules after my 'Shoebite' did not release.

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

I'm not hip-hop.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

I've been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot.

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I've always despised the hippies.

My parents were hippies.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.