Quotes About Nonconformity

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

British music lovers in general are dreadfully concerned about being cool, but I'm quite happy to grab uncool by the horns at any opportunity.

I don't do girlfriendy sort of things, like shopping or going to spas. Spas fill me with horror. Frankly, I'd be more interested in doing a walk through the sewers of London!

I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

Not Business as Usual, but Business Absolutely Unusual. Ray Lyman Wilbur

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

The funny thing is that I've known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

I know that my worldview is not a majoritarian one, that it's not a popular way of thinking.

I've not worn underwear for 20 years.

You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.

I have never worn a sweater vest a day in my life. Nor will I ever wear a sweater vest.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.