Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I don't like wearing suits all the time. I don't like looking like the clean-cut kind of dude. I think the coolest guys are the ones who dress how they want to dress.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Good girls would certainly not want to read about them.

He did not care one way or the other what people thought of his lifestyle. It required more energy than he felt the subject deserved even to be amused by it.

I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

There is a way you can make incredible music without following the so-called formula.

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.