Avicii Quotes

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I just don't conform very well.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

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.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

Conforming is not cool.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?