Quotes About Nonconformity

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

I'm for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think. - Angelique Noire

Everyone else can go ahead and live in their beige movie. I prefer mine in Technicolor. They might all look at me and they might talk about me and they might think I'm weird. And you know what? I couldn't possibly disappoint them. So let's not. Instead, let's show them how it's done.

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

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You were born wrong, darling

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.