Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the radio and MTV - at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn't really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

I'm not a gangster, bro.

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.