Quotes About Trendsetter

Jabba the Hutt—the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt—the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next.

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

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

In short, I have been a trendsetter. I have then moved on and people have followed in my footsteps.

When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'

When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.

I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify.

People are always looking for something new and something to latch on to and to back something from an early stage.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

Newsflash: air quotes are out.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30 000 and 50 000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

I'm a 'bright, shiny objects' guy. I'm always looking for what's next.

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.