Carlene Carter Quotes

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

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.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

I don't know if quirkiness is kind. I don't know if quirkiness is mean. I don't know if quirkiness has emotion. It's just a way of being.

I made it this far eating fruit roll-ups and having soda pop and having fun. I feel like I tried changing that to do like everyone says I should, and I just feel better being me.

We read a lot from the Satanic bible. It's not quite the opposite of the normal bible - a lot of its principles are just about being yourself, if you want to do something you do it, if you wanna have affairs you can. But we never hold daily rituals or anything.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

the mad have a grace all their own

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.