I always liked different things, rare things.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I’m a free spirit.

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.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

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

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I am just one human being.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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 have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

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

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

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

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.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

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.

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.

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.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

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

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Rather be dead than cool.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

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.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.