Alternative Lifestyle Quotes

I'd like to live off-grid.

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

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.

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

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

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.

Forget Halloween - Halloween to me is like every day. It's a lifestyle.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

What's skateable is limitless by design.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.