Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I can't do something just because it's popular.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

If you don't like this, we don't care - I think that's the essence of what popular music should be.

Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that most people think something that is wrong, which is great.

I've never courted popularity.

Popularity is the last thing I want.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.