Wendell Berry Quotes

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I don't care much about conforming.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I like being unconventional.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

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

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I don't want to follow the herd.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!