Nonconformist Quotes

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I'm very different from other politicians.

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

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I'm an outsider by instinct.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

I was a very strange child.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

I've always identified with the misfits.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.