Erin O'Connor Quotes

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no matter what you do, you're never going to be what society depicts as what's perfect, because that's not real. The only point that you have to make is that 'I'm being me.'

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

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.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I don't like to look typical.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

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.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I try to be as normal as I can.

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.