Quotes About Nonconformity

I've always been committed to tuning out the trends of drag and doing styles and fashions and performances that are really true to what I love, to the movie references I've always loved, fashion that speaks to me for whatever reason - no matter what people say.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and I'm not a liberal. I'm libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-roado.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I don't like fussy evening looks either. For starters, high heels make me miserable. I'll often pick a flowy dress or skirt. Androgynous looks are another favourite - so a man's suit, a tuxedo shirt, or tuxedo trousers with a tank top.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Don't wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.