Neneh Cherry Quotes

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I like being unconventional.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

I make no concessions to conformism.

It's important to be unconventional.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I'm not a conformist.

I don't like doing what people would expect of me.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Where's your will to be weird?

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

Never follow the crowd.