Quotes About Unconventionality

Everybody has a different way of getting somewhere and it's not the same formula for everyone.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable, more like a transparent, paradoxically, iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

I think a lot of brands are scared to put out wild shades, but I love that.

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Gaudi was surrounded by the rich folk of Catalonia, I've seen a picture of him with people wearing elegant hats and drinking wine. But that's not like me - I'm on my own.

Listen: we are here on earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different! —KURT VONNEGUT, TIMEQUAKE

These kids just keep getting weirder and weirder.

Sabes que si me marcho es porque te estorbo. No soy un ser normal... soy fiel, te lo aseguro, a mi manera, atrozmente fiel, hasta reventar. Pero me agobia la regularidad de la vida. En realidad, me siento mucho más cerca de la gente cuando la dejo.

Io volevo esser solo in un modo affatto insolito, nuovo. Tutt'al contrario di quel che pensate voi: cioè senza me e appunto con un estraneo attorno.

Our new ways are disruptive. They will look weird. This is good. Let us not care, but enjoy that glimpse in another's eyes that we will find sometimes—the one that says, "You're not crazy. I feel it, too.

Saí triste. Procurava um homem original e achei um maluco. Os de juízo são todos copiados uns dos outros. Consta-me até que aquele mesmo homem de Plutarco, freguês do Carceller, curado por um hábil médico, está agora tão comum como os outros. Acabou a originalidade com a maluquice.

Don't be like everyone else and pawn your dreams for pennies, because they'll never give you what it's truly worth.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right, ' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

Create your own out of the box thinking, create your own box.

You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.