Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? That's an analogy, I guess.
Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.
You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he's made a decision that he's going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He's decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
I don't like overt traditionalism.
There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.
I was always slightly afraid of marriage because I didn't like the idea of being tied down. Even when I met Brian, when I was in my mid-thirties, I didn't actually see it on the cards for us. He was a huge rock star, and our lives were very different.
You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.
I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.
I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.
When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.
Become goddesses of disobedience.
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.
