Quotes About Nonconformity

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

We didn't move up here because it was fashionable because, goodness me, it wasn't fashionable. It was too special. Fashionable to me implies conformity, and the Dakota didn't conform to anything in the city at the time.

If your born square you don't die round!

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

He's not following any of the rules, is he?

When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them." William

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else.

We committed the unpardonable crime of being mavericks who were successful.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

Both my parents are artists, so that just makes me look at everything slightly different. I listened to different music; I dressed differently. So I kind of grew up without following the pack.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.