Quotes about Nonconformity

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

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.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.