Bill Hicks Quotes

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I don't ever wanna be mainstream.

I don't really give a f**k about the mainstream. The mainstream doesn't offer me anything. Why would I offer it anything? I love the world I have. I love the sort of subculture that Green Day represents.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

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 preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

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.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

My whole life is punk.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I like being a cult figure.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I've never been a mainstream kind of guy.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.