Kid Cudi Quotes

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

Be less afraid to be different.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

I don't want to follow the herd.