Hayley Williams Quotes

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to do with the '80s. It's just who we were at that time. We were doing what we wanted to do. That had really nothing to do with anything around us, except for the simple fact that we were rebelling against that stuff.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

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

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.