John Rocha Quotes

Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

I don't think men dress to look attractive; I think they dress to look cool.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I could never dream of being cool.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room - you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect - the hair has got to be perfect, they've got to have the right gear on, it's all about their appearance. The nerds weren't bothered about how they looked.

A lot of people make fashion their whole life, which I think is not cool.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.