Quotes About Nonconformity

One of the things I admire most about millennials is they celebrate individualism, and their singularity is encouraged. To be different is to be cool as opposed to weird.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don't listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo disco to Appalachian country music, but I don't know what their records sound like. I hardly listen to my own records. I'm like Cher!

I was a cool skateboard fan, who didn't like the system.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

I love being not cool.

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

The girl who signed her papers in lipstick leans against the drugstore, smoking, brushing her hair like a machine