Quotes About Individuality

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

I just post what I want to, it's as simple there's no strategy or trying to send out a message in any way.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I'm very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

I like bad boys... not really bad, but men with an edge... they should be clean but have that streak.

When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.

I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.

A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules.

I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.

Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.