Quotes About Unconventional

Generally, drama films are made with stars - I broke the rule unknowingly.

I like rules that are broken.

When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

I have a friend who only buttons the bottom button of his suit jacket, which you're not supposed to do. 'Supposed to do.' But it's his thing, and it's his personal style, and it's like you've got to honor that. People can do whatever they want.

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."—A. Einstein

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, Well, to hell with you. And the cat says, Wait a minute. He's not behaving the way most humans do. Then the cat follows you out of curiosity: Well, what's wrong with you that you don't love me?

Young man,' she said to Bill Forrester, 'you are a person of taste and imagination. Also, you have the will power of ten men; otherwise you would not dare veer away from the common flavors listed on the menu and order, straight out, without quibble or reservation, such an unheard-of things as lime-vanilla ice.' He bowed his head solemnly to her. 'Come sit with me, both of you,' she said. 'We'll talk of strange ice creams and such things as we seem to have a bent for.

Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American.

Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.