Quotes About Nonconformity

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

I hate stereotypical roles.

I'm glad that I'm not a stereotypical actor.

I pretty much figured out in grade school that we weren't the stereotypical American family.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.