Quotes About Nonconformity

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Quello che non sopporto è che tutti non siano come me

Ka?da organizacja jest dla mnie za ciasna. Mam potrzeb? wolno?ci. Taka wolno?c jest m?cz?ca, bo za ka?dym razem w obliczu jakiego? problemu, kiedy trzeba postanowi?, co my?le?, co zrobi?, mo?na odwo?a? si? tylko do w?asnego umys?u, w?asnego serca, a nie do ?atwej, gotowej to u?ytku linii partyjnej albo s?ów jakiej? ?wi?tej ksi?gi.

I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do things differently isn't 'uncool.' In fact, it's the exact opposite.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

I'm okay with being the oddball.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

It's okay to be a freak.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I am only really attracted to people who are very open-minded and embrace and celebrate people who live outside the gender norm.

A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die.… Hunter

Ginsberg and those coffee houses with hungry-looking guitar players never did mean shit to me. They never took their drinking seriously.

I am not a bat. ~Rephaim