Quotes About Nonconformity

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

We never thought the films would be so famous for so long. We were just happy to do things. It was more bohemian. We knew we were doing something we liked and it was not like everyone else. It was a happy world.

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I think everyone else is boring. And I'm not boring.

Perfect is boring.

People think I'm crazy, but I'm not bothered what anyone thinks.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I want to do parts that are outside of the box.

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.