Quotes About Individuality

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style.

I am not dependent on Pep. He is a great coach, but I do not need to take the same path as him.

When I go gray, I'm not going to be able to see it that much. I won't be salt and pepper: I'll be like salt and the white pepper you can buy.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

I don't have an idol per se.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I've stopped caring how others are going to perceive me if I wear something that they don't like.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.