James Broughton Quotes

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.