Nancy Sinatra Quotes

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I always felt just that I didn't fit into certain groups.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

No one in my school liked me.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you. But I didn't know the people who called me Keds. I think that they didn't like me because I didn't want to join a sorority.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

I've never really fit in.