Quotes About Nonconformity

She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

I always knew I wanted to dance and when I was eight, I started ballet lessons at a church hall. They all wore pink ballet shoes but I wore green, as they were cheap, and I remember everyone staring at me.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.

When it all boils down, being Courtney has forced me to be different to the status quo, which means I have gotten to decide on every choice along the way.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

Even if you have a problem with me log-rolling down to the ring, I'm going to stay true to myself. I'd rather do it my way than follow someone else's blueprint.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I've always been an artist that has had a problem with genres, staying in the box, and being told what I had to be.