Quotes About Unconventional

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

In our family, we don't hide crazy...we put it on the porch and give it a cocktail.

It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow.

What a childhood! I was breast-fed by my father.

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.

In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.

If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren't thinking about.

I had found somebody who lived a life as unconventional as my own. She above anybody would understand that monogamy had nothing to do with my feelings for her. I could go to work and have sex with countless beautiful women, and at the end of the day I'd come home to her and be as devoted as ever. And when she made porn films, it worked the same way. I would call it emotional monogamy...physical nonmonogamy.

On raconte qu'elle est très bizarre. - Alors elle est sûrement très intéressante, [...], les gens bizarres le sont toujours, peu importe ce qu'ils sont ou ne sont pas d'autre.

I wanted to be alone in an altogether unusual way, a new way. Quite the contrary of what you think: that is to say, without myself and, to be precise, with a stranger at hand.

Perché trovarsi davanti a un pazzo sapete che significa? Trovarsi davanti a uno che vi scrolla dalle fondamenta tutto quanto avete costruito in voi, attorno a voi, la logica, la logica di tutte le vostre costruzioni! - Eh! Che volete? Costruiscono senza logica, beati loro, i pazzi! O con una loro logica che vola come una piuma!

Io volevo esser solo in un modo affatto insolito, nuovo. Tutt'al contrario di quel che pensate voi: cioè senza me e appunto con un estraneo attorno.

Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's one of the best things our culture does.

There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.

it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from

If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.

the United States' population is ten times the size of Canada's. If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.

The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body

I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything.

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.

Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit.