Shawn Colvin Quotes

I don't care much about conforming.

I am not a conformist.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

My parents have always taught me to be myself and to follow my instincts.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

I'm not really making decisions that people normally expect.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.