Donald Cerrone Quotes

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

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

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I am a contrarian.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.