Burna Boy Quotes

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I was anti-conformist.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

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

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I am not a conformist.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.