Rob Zombie Quotes

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for a while and that's where I fell back in love with music. Just being isolated out there, eliminating all these opinions that I endured during my time in LA and the music industry, all the rejection, it was really hard on me and my creativity. So by isolating myself in the wilderness, I was able to fall back in love with music. It was always ingrained in me, always in my blood, but I just lost it for a minute.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson