Avril Lavigne Quotes

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

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

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I've never been a yes man.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I don't run behind authority.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I don't care much about conforming.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I don't want to follow the herd.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I don't take well to rules.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.