Sam Fender Quotes

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

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 grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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.

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 don't want to be a pretty boy.

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

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.

It was not a good thing in my family to be a 'personality.'

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

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

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

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

It's easy to think you have to fit some kind of mold.