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

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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

Let’s embrace being not normal!

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.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I always liked different things, rare things.

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.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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

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

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

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.

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

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

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

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

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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.

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.

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 problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

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.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

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

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

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 never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

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

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.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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

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

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

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

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.

We are all special cases.

I just want to be myself.

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

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

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