Paul Newman Quotes

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I've done that my whole life - I've taken the way people think and turned it on its head.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'