Quotes About Nonconformity

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit into a particular box, and I wasn't a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

I remember in 2004, I had three gorgeous transgender models on the runway. That was my strength, in a way. That I did what I thought was gonna work, and I never paid attention to the industry's rules.

If you want to be wrong, then follow the masses.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Algumas vezes você tem de ser corajosa e fazer algo que não se encaixa no padrão geral apenas para sacudir um pouco as coisas, para fazer acontecer.

Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, "Does anybody know a good tailor?", or "Gentlemen – I think there's a thief in the battery." He was the bane of the Regiment.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

L'arte è questo: scappare dalla normalità che ti vuole mangiare.

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.