Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I’m a free spirit.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

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

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

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.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

Rather be dead than cool.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

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.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

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

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

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

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I always liked different things, rare things.

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

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.

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

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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?

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.