Quotes About Individuality

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

I am the type of person who can get ready in precisely five minutes, so I obviously just mix and match and wear whatever I am feeling like on that day.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

It sounds precocious, but I knew that I had to listen to my own inner voice and ignore what everyone else was saying, even my mum.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I can be pretty, I just prefer not to.