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

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

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.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

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 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.

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.

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

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

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.

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.

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

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

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

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

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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.

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

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

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

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

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

I am just one human being.

Rather be dead than cool.

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.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

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.

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

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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.

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.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

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

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 not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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 didn’t even know I needed throw pillows. That was always Brad’s thing.

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.

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

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.