Quotes About Individuality

My friends are not in the industry - they're young artists or knitwear designers or whatever.

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

Designers do a lot of clothes I would like to wear but I can't. If it had to be made up in my size It would look ridiculous. You can't always wear what's in style. You have to realize what looks good on you.

Growing up, I had trouble finding clothes because I was curvy, and so I would end up designing my own things.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

I try to keep at least one or two of my firesuit designs every year.

It is always good to keep looking different and desirable.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Everybody has their own desires.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

I think the fact that all women get branded as the same, desperate for love, desperate for children, is just a really unmodern attitude.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.

I think if you try to force a personality on a world then I think you're destined to fail.

The learning from my entire career is: never compare yourself to anyone because it'll destroy you.

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.