Quotes About Trendsetter

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I'm a trendsetter. I'm a leader, not a follower.

Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Fools easily blend with the masses and tend to follow usually the trend, but a sensible person gives mostly thoughts for a second to see its end and then normally does bend in a different direction

I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Just because gladiator shoes are in, everybody can't start flaunting those.

When I first started wearing blue lipstick, it was a MAC gloss that they had. Everyone was making fun of me, and I was like, 'Watch - this is going to be cool one day.'

We're the leaders. Look around. Everything we do, we're gonna see everyone else try to do it.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

it's about being a driver of the market, not simply being market-driven.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.