Quotes About Nonconformity

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

Growing up, a lot of people wore baggy stuff. I went in the opposite direction. Just trying to be different.

I don't think I'm the 'Oprah' type.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

I know I'm not the most orthodox kind of player. I just feel normal being like that.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.