Quotes About Nonconformity

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

I feel that I have my own personality and I don't want to be typed as anyone else.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

If you don't like my queer ways you can kiss my fucking ass

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you will never accomplish more than others expect

You can't be a rebel if there aren't any rules.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

We were the only band that played with D.R.I. and C.O.C., and then Celtic Frost and Venom. We were doing shit that nobody else was doing, and we didn't care. I never took myself that seriously.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply

Status seekers, I never cared Once I found out they never dared To seize the world and shake it upside down And every stinking bum should wear a crown

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

should we just ignore all of the tidy boxes?