Quotes about Nonconformity

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

You can't put a cubicle on Enzo Amore. You can't put a cubicle around Eric Arndt.

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.