Quotes About Nonconformity

I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I'm not out to please everyone.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please everyone.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.

I am not the clone of anyone.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.