Quotes About Nonconformity

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.