Bootsy Collins Quotes

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

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

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I like being unconventional.

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

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

I am very into making up my own rules.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

We never want to toe the line.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.