Quotes About Nonconformity

I do not get caught up in mundane, routine things.

Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel a part of anything in any music business.

I always felt independent of musical fashion.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

I'm in my own little world. I don't get invited into galas; I don't meet other people that I don't find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

I don't go by brand names for directors.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

I think that most people are natural libertarians.

To be a rebel is to reject what it means to succeed in a capitalist, consumer culture, especially the idea that we should always come first.