Wendy O. Williams Quotes

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

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'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I don't like rules.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

I don't take well to rules.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

We never want to toe the line.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I don't run behind authority.

I really rebel against authority.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

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

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I don't care much about conforming.

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