Quotes About Nonconformity

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

I know it's insane to think that I could fly. But to make it possible, you truly have to believe in it - to go to a place that's not accepted.

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

I am not good at following rules, I am not good at following instructions, I am not good at driving slow.

I was never good at taking instructions.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

In those days, and still now, I had a lot of women friends -- mostly in the black swan category-- who ignored convention and things society expected women to be, but didn't fuck your boyfriend, no matter what. Fucking people's husbands is for people from Ivy League colleges who read too much John O'Hara.

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Hago el bien porque me lo dictan las pelotas. Las que me cuelgan, grandes como las de mi amigo Gabito, como huevos prehistóricos.

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life wait a second you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.