Iggy Azalea Quotes

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I like wearing things that other people wouldn't want to wear, to be a bit edgy.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

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

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

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

I've always been in a rebel.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'

I like being a cult figure.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

You expressed yourself by looking different from other people. We even looked different from each other. But among the Exis, there was a close group of us, Klaus Voormann, Jurgen Wollmer and me. Klaus and I always wore black.