Quotes About Uniqueness

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

If you look at my track record, there was nothing on radio that sounded like 'Oh Carolina,' 'Mr Bombastic' when they came out.

Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things... and then there's that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There's great stuff that's taken the genre to a new level over the years, and 'Regulate' was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.

I love being who I am. And I would not trade it for anything.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

It certainly is a positive thing... having a trademark.

My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.

It's definitely a beautiful thing to have a little trademark or something that sets you out from everybody else.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.