Quotes About Unconventionality

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

As long as you're dancing, you can Break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just Extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

Honestly, the only reason 'Ice Cream' happened was because it wasn't a commercial film.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

She was at least seventy, tall, withered, and angular, with white hair arranged in old-fashioned sausage curls on her temples. She was dressed in the quaint and clumsy style of the wandering Englishwoman, like a person to whom clothes were a matter of complete indifference; she was eating an omelette and drinking water.

Genius comes from the unusual

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

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