Quotes About Unconventionality

I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

Perfection is really boring!

I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.

You can never have enough wacky in MMA.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.

We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold.

I'm all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of attention.

We feel a brand should be free.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Copy individuals who are weird.

The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again, If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much, But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn…

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Listen, three eyes, he said, don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.