Quotes About Nonconformity

I sleep as much as I want. I'll sleep, like, 11 hours, unless I'm working. Sometimes I do feel like, 'This is weird; I should just get up so I can fit into the world.' Then I'm like, 'Why?' I don't have a nine-to-five job.

I can never see myself working a nine-to-five.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

I have no interest in being told what to do.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

I was impressed by people like Les who had the bravery to brush their teeth (before lunch, even!) at work, since the act was so powerfully unbusinesslike;

Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

I am not under any orders to make the world a better place.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

You are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world

Wherever we end up, I just won't go back to normal.

The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.

I just didn't want to be fixed.

Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.