Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Be less afraid to be different.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I am and be a rolemodel for these girls.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.