Quotes About Uniqueness

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

I've always known that I wanted to be different. I wanted to stand out, so my gear is very elaborate, very blingy, very loud, because I want people to notice me, want to look like me. The Boss necklace, the ring. I want everything big.

Being different means you are noticed more, and sometimes that has been helpful.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Being a novelty had its advantages.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

You don't start by saying, 'Well, am I better than her?' Because that goes nowhere. Instead, all your work, your passion, your will has to go into what you do. And then if there is a result, if people like you, if you are a bit different, then fine.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

We all look at the same object in different ways.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true.

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

Actually, I love watching good golf for obvious reasons, but I don't take inspiration from other golfers as much.