Quotes About Unconventionality

You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

A girl, like you—' 'Like me? There are no girls like me.' I

She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be.

There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: 1. Que se haría la raya del pelo en el lado contrario a todos los demás. 2. Que se dejaría un pequeño y extraño bigote. 3. Que un día dominaría el mundo.

If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest adding broken glass to the tub. If my mother insisted on listening to West Side Story repeatedly, it was Dorothy who said, 'Let's listen to it on forty-five!' And when my mother announced that she wanted a fur wrap like Auntie Mame, Dorothy bought her an unstable Norwegian elkhound from a puppy mill.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

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.

As documented in two important books, Neurodiversity by Thomas Armstrong and The Power of Different by

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Uno no toma prestado el código del vecino.

People are strange

Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.