Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Rather be dead than cool.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

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

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

Be less afraid to be different.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

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

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.