Kat Von D Quotes

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

I'm not a sheep.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

Never follow the crowd.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

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

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

I like being unconventional.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I enjoy being different.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

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.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

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

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.