Quotes About Individuality

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.