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

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

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.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

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.

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.

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.

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

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

I just want to be myself.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

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

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

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

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

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

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.

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.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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

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.

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

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

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’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

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.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

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

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

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

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

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

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

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

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

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

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

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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