Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I'm the best at getting my own point across.

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

My state of being is just unique.

I am bad mannered, naughty, and one of those few people who lands up in controversies, but I guess that's expected of me.

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

Who isn't difficult? I'm difficult as an artist.

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about.

I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I was unique and still am unique.

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

I don't really change much; there's not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.

I got booed a lot of places.

It's hard for me to describe my own style because I'm me.

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.