Quotes About Individuality

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.