Mark Van Doren Quotes

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

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

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 love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I like being unconventional.

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

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.