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.

We are all special cases.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

I just want to be myself.

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.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

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.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

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

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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

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

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

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

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

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

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.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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.

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

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

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

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.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

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

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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.

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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

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

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.

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 the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

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.

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

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

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

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.

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.

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.

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

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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

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’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.

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

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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

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