I always liked different things, rare things.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

We boil at different degrees.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.