Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.

I hate the idea of having to conform with what's current and what sounds good on radio at the moment.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Kurt Cobain really made an impression on us. He just had that rebel attitude. You could tell he was super talented but didn't really care.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

We can't be tamed at all. We've never been that kind of group. We always used to talk about how our image was as big as our sound.

When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'

If that's too mythical a tone consider those who conform and know something's wrong and need a zany few who won't obey.

He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, "To freaks everywhere." Vidocq holds up his mug. "May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.