Quotes About Uniqueness

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I always try to make each character my own.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

When we dim our light to make others feel more comfortable, the whole world gets darker.