Quotes About Nonconformity

I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.

Sleep is for squares.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

I cannot stand authority.

I can stand up for what I believe in. I don't take the word 'rebel' in a negative connotation.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

In high school, I was obsessed with '60s and mod. It was about the look, and also about not being part of whatever the standard was.

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.