Quotes About Unconventional

Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

Clearly, I'm not trying to write songs for the radio.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

For what might happen if we lift the codicils on belching? If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people were allowed to sing arias from Don Giovanni , loudly and out of tune, waiting in line at Department of Motor Vehicles?

There was the finest line between unique and odd

If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself." Chablis

Better to be impossible than measured in centimeters

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

He had never been an artistic man. He had never been a fastidious man. He had got pleasure from smelling at dung-hills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved. He had no cruelty, no culture, no ambition, no breeding, no refinement, no curiosity, no conceit. He believed that there was a borderland of the miraculous round everything that existed and that everything that lived was holy.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

I have just created something totally illogical.

We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

I like taking up exceptional characters.

I love doing things people don't expect.

When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.

I have always come out of left field with my stuff.

I grew up in a very liberal place.