Quotes About Uniqueness

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

I won't have plastic surgery. You either take me as I am, or you don't.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

My Crow A crow flew into the tree outside my window. It was not Ted Hughes's crow, or Galway's crow. Or Frost's, Pasternak's, or Lorca's crow. Or one of Homer's crows, stuffed with gore, after the battle. This was just a crow. That never fit in anywhere in its life, or did anything worth mentioning. It sat there on the branch for a few minutes. Then picked up and flew beautifully out of my life.

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue youi could get better somewhere else.

I have such a beautiful love for myself—and the sweet part of it—no rivals.

After all, many people make babies; only one made To the Lighthouse and Three Guineas...

But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.