Quotes About Nonconformity

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

I love a black wedding dress.

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

I'm the sort of person who wants to wear a wedding dress to a wedding.

Whenever anyone says I've taught them things by me being myself, I'm always like, 'Really? I just thought that was like, Wednesday for me. I was just wearing a kilt and a sleeveless top in a Rotary Club, it wasn't that big of a deal.'

I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week.

When I was 13 I would come to school with makeup and nail polish and I had teachers who would say, 'We can't teach you and you're not allowed in class.'

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

My point of view on most issues, my point of view on political issues, doesn't check all the boxes for any movement or any ideology, so I don't feel any burden to give voice to anybody but myself.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

I am not trying to be cooler or change my image or get into pop music.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.