Quotes About Nonconformity

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

People try to turn you into something if they can't pin you down.

When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

I'm not a camp, throwaway queen; I'm not in Neverland. I'm not Jennifer Lopez with three people to pluck my eyebrows. I've made myself what I want to be - not everybody's cup of tea. And people wanna have a look at me. I fully accept that. People have always wanted to have a look at me.