Quotes About Individuality

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

It's not like we were setting out to make a political statement - we're just a band with opinions.

My personal style statement is to be comfortable because if you are comfortable you are confident.

I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.

I don't want to make a statement when it comes to fashion.

Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don't mind people seeing all of the things that I would consider imperfections, because, quite honestly, I feel like they're better than anything else they're gonna hear.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.

One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers.

It didn't matter what it was. I was always making bold statements at school. Ever since I've always had a passion for clothes, shoes and that type of stuff.

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

I don't really care about statistics from other attackers.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.