Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I always felt different because I didn't pick one specific clique or group to be a part of, and I didn't choose one thing to be. I cheered, sang in chorus, was in student government, played in rock bands, went to dirt races in western PA... My interests have always been diverse.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.

For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I always knew my mother was different, different from the other mothers in the way she dressed, the way she spoke, but most obviously, the way she mothered. I remember a slumber party where, instead of a sleeping bag, she urged me to bring a small, inflatable mattress because the dust on the floor was liable to aggravate my allergies.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.