Quotes About Individuality

Two people do not lose themselves at the identical moment, or else they might find each other, and be saved. It is not as simple as that.

I've given up on normal as a life goal, having realized that 'normal' is just a setting on one's dryer.

Sin embargo, aunque todos procedemos del mismo jardín, al parecer no olemos las mismas rosas

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. - Gloria

Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free.

He wasn't certain whether he was a good or bad person. Whether he was altruistic. Whether he was demonic. But he was certain of one thing. He was an artist. And for that he would never apologize.

I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

People say beware, but I don't care. Their words are just rules and regulations to me.

I'm going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I'm self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don't feel any shame about it.

Of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

One by one they noted in my reports that I daydreamed far too much, was always somewhere else. Where that somewhere was I cannot say, but it often landed me in the corner sitting on a high stool in full view of all in a conical paper hat.

You know, the dreams you had for me weren't my dreams," he said. "Maybe those dreamsare meant for you.

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.