Jon Fishman Quotes

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

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

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.

I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. Never.

They call me Caveman because I don't care what others think of me.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I just don't conform very well.

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.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.