Eric Church Quotes

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

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

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.

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

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

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

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

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 have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

I don't ever wanna be mainstream.

I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Conforming is not cool.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.