Quotes About Individuality

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

I must play the instrument I've got.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

I am more than what they say I am.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.