Quotes About Individuality

In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

I just kind of do my own thing. I'm not trying to be like nobody else or nothing like that. Like when I travel, everybody's like, go to Dubai, it's a new thing. I can go to Dubai, but I'm not going to just because I'm not trying to go where everybody is going.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

I learned it is important to be confident in what you have and drown out all of the outside noise. You can't be distracted by what everyone else is doing and how they are doing it.

Stop focusing on the noise and the expectations of others, and focus on what makes you happy.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.