Quotes About Nonconformity

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

I think there are small treasures and blessings inside of our imperfections. But there are so many people in the world that oppress you for being an individual if you don't fit in with the rest of the crowd, if you don't run with the herd. It's always perplexing to me when I see people mad at other people for being who they are.

I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not.

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I'm not really a trend person.

If someone tells you what something is supposed to look like or to follow a specific trend, but it looks silly on you, you don't have to do it.

I don't follow any particular musical trend.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

We don't want to do what everyone else does. We want to create trends. We like to think outside of the box.

I don't chase beauty trends.

I don't blindly follow fashion trends.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.