Quotes About Individuality

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.