Quotes About Unconventionality

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

You have broken down all formal order, grooves, more than anyone I know outside of Dostoevsky's books.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

weirdo n. (pl. weirdos) INFORMAL a person whose dress or behaviour seems strange or eccentric.

We need to tell each other stories of different ways you can live, different ways you can be; predicated not on how close you get to the life you were assumed or expected to have, but on the queer wanderings of a life you live.

They wanted to be different, but there was no one to show them how.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists

Cadillac might have been off the beaten track, but a lot of folk preferred the ditch to the highway. It was like Neil Young said: you meet more interesting people there.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference.

If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Assuming that all things are equal, Who'd want to be men of the people, When there's people like you?

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

In general, I don't like formality at all.

I don't think I have a genre at all.