Quotes About Unconventional

I don't believe in trends.

I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.

I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

I'm not a trendy person, I don't like to be.

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Luftmensch—the impractical individual whose imagination has lifted him beyond the world.

Irreverent or not, it is true.

Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.

We committed the unpardonable crime of being mavericks who were successful.

There's no such thing as a normal angel. It's never done that way.

Instead of drugs, entire skeletons were being flushed down the john. A lion had escaped from the zoo and been eaten by a child. An old guy had blinded a traffic cop by spitting out a gallstone. A plane had crash-landed on a porn theatre, killing hundreds of lawyers. This very day Beerlight was host to a snipers' convention.

That August and for six months to come, as he became only the second president in American history to face impeachment charges, Clinton had neither the credibility nor the political strength required to lead the United States into a sustained military conflict even if it was an unconventional or low-grade war fought by Special Forces. His realistic options were severely limited. And Clinton could be certain that he would be harshly criticized no matter what he did or did not do.