Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

I just knew I was different from everyone else. I still feel like that today, sitting in rooms with people.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.

I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.

I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.