Quotes About Nonconformity

I've always been strange; I've always been slightly to the left, like 'weirdo' to other people, I guess.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

I was always the weirdo at school.

I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I think more people feel like they're outside of the mainstream these days - there's more people who are doing their own thing, feeling that it's not bad to be a weirdo and respecting other people's differences. And all that kind of goes into the big ol' B-52 philosophy.

Lil Yachty is opening up that lane of being a black weirdo.

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and I was well known for my rebellion.

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.