Quotes About Unconventionality

Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk's always sticking out from under the bed, I'm ready to leave or get thrown out. I've decided to leave everything out of my hands. You've seen me try and break my ass to make it and you know that it doesn't matter and we know time — how to slow it up and walk and dig and just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there? We know.

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

What's your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.

I have never met such weird yet serious and earnest people.

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

Remember that, ultimately, it is your differences that make you who you are and distinguish you from the bland and humdrum, and without your differences you can never hope to truly be special.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

People like me, like Karen Elson and Soo Joo, we're a very specific woman with a very specific look. I think that's also why we last longer. There's no one else like us.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

more likely to have creative ideas (or less likely to suffer from group-think).

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.