Defying the Norm Quotes

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

I already know what it's like to make life choices that are not the same as the majority.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

I'm not a sheep.

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

Posterity will give a man a fair hearing; his own times will not do so if he is attacking vested interests.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.