I always liked different things, rare things.

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

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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

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

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

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

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

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.

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

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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

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

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.

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.

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.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

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

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

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.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

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

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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

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

Freedom is relative.

I’m very free-spirited.

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.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.