Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.