Princess Nokia Quotes

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.

You can't be a punk all your life.

My parents aren't really conformists.

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 never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

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

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do 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.

I just don't conform very well.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

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.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

My whole life is punk.

I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'

My friends and me, we're the type that don't care. We're not into fashion. That's, like, millennial spirit.

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

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

I was anti-conformist.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.