Quotes About Unconventionality

It's not a normal every day thing to see yourself with fur, but I loved it.

I'm not really making decisions that people normally expect.

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

I think everybody's nuts.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

glories of being able to think different, yet until

Oddest of all, there is this entry: "Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men."10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss but every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you, nothing will compare

At the same time, he studiously avoided becoming a textbook player. He wanted to blend the best of the received wisdom into a refined version of his crazy-seeming "harum scarum" style. He wanted to play a slightly different game than everyone else was playing, to be out of sync with the anticipated rhythms, protocols, and conventions.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.