Quotes About Nonconformity

I am okay doing negative role provided it is out of the box.

If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.

I enjoy not being a public company.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

Punk inspired me.

Lita was the perfect blend of pretty and punk, Lucha with a gothic edge and a high-flyer who could take on anyone, anytime, anyplace. She truly was ahead of her time.

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.