Dries van Noten Quotes

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

I like things that look like mistakes.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Why do you want to fit in when you were born to stand out?

The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it?

I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

The weirder the better for me.

I like things that other people don't have. I like to be different from others.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I always liked different things, rare things.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.