Quotes About Nonconformity

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

We are not communists.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

I was very into the truancy concept.

The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

I just don't conform very well.

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.'

I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

I'm not a conformist.