Alternative Identity Quotes

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.

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.

I'm always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

I don't feel like I've ever been in mainstream society.

I hated school, so when I got to this place with other people who could draw and were interested in wearing makeup, it was amazing.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.