Quotes About Nonconformity

We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

It's great finding a comic book character that doesn't care about following traditional comic book rules by breaking the fourth wall and being explicit about everything. This gives Deadpool the arrogance which you just have to love.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I am not a fashion freak!

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

When you're living the Crunk Rock lifestyle, you don't let anybody tell you what to do. You live your life to the fullest, you live every day like it's your last, and you party like a rock star. It's just a crazy lifestyle.

I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.

I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I discovered. And it didn't always have to make sense.

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

I'll never be a Mentat," he said. "I'm something else…a freak.

You have square thoughts which resist circles.

Mikey's father, champion of all pint drinkers, is like my uncle Pa Keating, he doesn't give a fiddler's fart what the world says and that's the way I'd like to be myself.

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.

I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams was one of the things by which I defined myself.