Boyd Rice Quotes

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 think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

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

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 put labels on myself.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I just don't conform very well.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

I don't care much about conforming.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I don't use labels a lot.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

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

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.