Quotes About Nonconformity

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

Own your differences and don't always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

I always prided myself in being different.

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

When you see a chick that's not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, 'That girl wants to stick it to the man.' But we don't give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

I don't want to dumb anything down, and I think people appreciate that. Even if it's not their cup of tea.