Quotes About Nonconformity

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

And all the little people Will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May."

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.

Cuando todo el mundo sigue por un camino, yo cojo el otro.

I'm different and I don't care who knows it. I'm different and that's how it goes. Cause.... I like doing things my own way.

Sometimes I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people." If that makes me a bitch, okay.

It's ok to live a life that others don't understand.

Dare to be different, Dare to be yourself. Because there's no wrong and right in the way you are.

Live life on your own terms and never apologize for it.

You don't have to settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who you are.

I can choose not be what everyone is Rather, I choose to be what everyone says I cannot be.

If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the whole world waiting for you like an enormous dance pavilion lit by colored lights and surrounded with palm trees. I'm not talking about the dirty boogie. The music of the spheres is right outside your bedroom window.

I want to do it too!" said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless. "Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church.

I guess. But not in the, uh, traditional way.

He has tattoos, nose rings, and those little metal studs that look like steel zits. Recently, he had a metal spike pierced through his ear. Made his lobes look like barbecued shrimp on a skewer.

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.