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I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

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've always been interested in the outsider.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I have an interest in the outsider.

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

I always had good reactions from people with a good eye and a vision... and very terrible reactions from those who are afraid of people who are different to others - at the beginning and even now. I have never worried about it too much.

I was called a freak because I was so engrossed in music.

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