Quotes About Nonconformity

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I don't care what people think. People are stupid.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I have never followed anyone's style of singing.

I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too. Marilyn Manson definitely shows me you shouldn't care what nobody say. I watched a bunch of his interviews, and he's not just an artist; he's one of the most intelligent people I ever saw in my life.

I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and 'In the Heights,' and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just 'Old Man River.'

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

Some people just don't subscribe to labels.

I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Perfect is Boring!

Stay in drugs, don't do school.

You don't fit in with people's expectations. You're not quite the same as they are, and because of that you make them feel uncomfortable. But instead of trying to understand what you are, for yourself, they dislike you for making them feel uncomfortable.