Quotes About Nonconformity

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.

I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

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

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I was never a hippy, per se.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Perfectionist? That's not something I am.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Anyone can follow the crowd but only a true visionary will dare to stand up for what he/she believes in.