Shane Koyczan Quotes

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

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

Be your own person and don't listen to anyone who says differently. We are all unique!

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

People always had something to say about the fact I was odd looking, bigger than other people, that I was awkward. When I discovered punk, I bought into it. That look, combined with being fat, made me even less of what people thought a young woman should be.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

My fans like the rebel in me.

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.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Rather be dead than cool.