Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

Honestly, the only reason 'Ice Cream' happened was because it wasn't a commercial film.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

The role that I played in 'Gaana Bajaana' was that of a tomboyish girl who identified with the guys. There was nothing feminine about her.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I'm a GQ fashionista, imagine that? I don't take it seriously.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

I'll crack jokes in the locker room, I don't care. I don't gotta impress nobody.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

Non-binary is a term used by some people, myself included, who feel that their gender identity falls outside the tradition boxes of man or woman.