Quotes About Unconventional

I think I'm a different creature from the rest.

I'm a little bit of a creep.

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

I can't shoot straight-up. I've always played crooked. One of my coaches says I play backwards. I do everything backwards. I don't have coordination. It's weird to watch me play.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I was never part of the crowd.

When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

Everything's weird on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

I am kind of a curiosity in England.

I'm a curious human being, and I love things that are a little bit off.

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

People thought I looked weird, that I talked weird.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.