Jeff Hanneman Quotes

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I am definitely an individual.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

I appreciate individualism.

I am a rank individualist.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.