Quotes About Nonconformity

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.

I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.

In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.

The technique to apply lipstick is no technique. It's okay if it's not perfect.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn't like to look like anyone else.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.