Olly Alexander Quotes

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I don't care much about conforming.

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

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

I was never the girl next door.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I love being not cool.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I'm not the girl next door.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I will never grow up. Everyone wants to tell me how to live my life.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I just don't conform very well.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.