Shane Koyczan Quotes

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no matter what you do, you're never going to be what society depicts as what's perfect, because that's not real. The only point that you have to make is that 'I'm being me.'

I want to set an example and say that you don't need to wear a certain color, a certain type of maang tika; your hair doesn't have to look a particular way.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

There are definitely advantages to not looking like a Viking in real life.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.

People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.