Quotes About Individuality

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.