Quotes About Nonconformity

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

As long as you're happy, who cares what everybody else is doing?

Electra Gates would never concern herself with how much lard should be in pie dough, I thought; but then, I was not Electra Gates. I wanted pie, something that didn't seem to interest romantic heroines.

I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.

Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?

why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.

But she'd been wrong about Vig. He wasn't broken. He wasn't destroyed by a cruel society. He was just an introvert with an aversion to shaving. And he liked her. Liked her, liked her.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs.

Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds.