Sheila Heti Quotes

Dare to be Free.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

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.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

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

I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.

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.

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

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

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

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.