Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Most entertainers start at a young age saying, 'I don't want to be normal. I don't want a regular job.'... I think that's something that's innate.

I've done things so unconventionally that I don't think I'd ever be able to lead by someone else's example or the way somebody else has done it. Everybody has their own way of going about things and mine seems to be completely different.

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

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

I'm not out to please everyone.

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.

Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

I am not a conformist.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really allowed to wear. That's what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life's too short to dress by other people's rules.

I was anti-conformist.

My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

I think I have kind of have the same mind-set that Kanye West has. He just likes to do his thing.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.