Quotes About Nonconformity

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

I try not to be a typical athlete.

I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

We're not a typical Christian band. We've got dreadlocks and tattoos.

Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

My band's motto is 'Yngwie or the highway.' Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci allowed someone who came later to add to his paintings? It's impossible. That's the whole issue. I'm not a typical rock n' roll guitarist nor a simple band member.

I don't have a typical body type, and that used to be something that made me feel very alone and weird.

You don't need to do things in the typical way to get a beautiful result.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.