Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

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.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

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

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.