Quotes About Individuality

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But for me it was amusing.

I don't think everyone is 100% comfortable in their own skin, but we're learning to love ourselves more and more, and that's what we represent in our music.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson.

Everyone's opinions have to be respected. The coach has his, we have ours, the media have theirs.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that's what I'm going to do.