Quotes About Unconventionality

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

Unconventionality is no longer a taboo. It is being applauded and celebrated by both the classes and the masses.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

Why be normal? What's the point?

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Wie kam ein Mensch überhaupt dazu, so auszusehen wie er? Die große Nase war viel zu unbescheiden für sein geringes Amt im Leben; außerdem ließ er sich den ganzen Winter über die Haare nicht schneiden, was seinem Kopf von Woche zu Woche mehr Künstlerisches verlieh.

If everyone else is thinking right and left, you fucking well better be thinking up and down.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

no one ever said the Baba Yagas were sane. There were many job requirements, but clearly that wasn't one of them.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

Being different was not something that was tolerated in cheeses.

Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

I mean, I know but I don't. I've always been different, but to me different is normal.

I've always been different, but to me different is normal.

The whole point of travel is to learn there's no such thing as normal.