Quotes About Individuality

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.

I just couldn't keep on trying to please people. It was hindering my creative output, and I had to be honest with myself.

When you make giant things for people, they don't always fit; they're not always happy with something that's that big or that kind of outrageous compared to what they usually wear.

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

I don't like looking outrageous.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

I really love when music artists like Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson wear outrageous things. Obviously, if I wore something like that I'd look like an idiot, but I really respect fashion.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

In YBN, we all have our own lanes. We're not necessarily a group. We're more of a collective - it's like a movement. It's like a brotherhood outside of music and everything has been organic.

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.

I always felt an outsider.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.