“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”

“Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.”

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”

“I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

“Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.”