Quotes About Nonconformity

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

To me, design is very personal. I'm not one of those people who is like, 'This is right, this is wrong.' You should do things that you love, not things that magazines tell you to do.

Being mainstream is fun.

I think people do not associate me with the mainstream.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

My music isn't mainstream music.

As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box is ready to break into the mainstream. I want to do my best to put myself in the best position to have that happen for me.

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

I just never was the marrying kind.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

I'll tell you what I long for, the days of disarray, when I didn't give a damn or a fuck or a farthing.

Violate conventions and you are marked as an outsider. A rude outsider, at that.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool.

Rules are meant to be broken.