Quotes About Nonconformity

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

If you want to wear a suit for no reason, why not?

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people - and I put myself in this category - don't fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.

I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.'