Nikolai Gogol Quotes

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

I've done things so unconventionally that I don't think I'd ever be able to lead by someone else's example or the way somebody else has done it. Everybody has their own way of going about things and mine seems to be completely different.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

I didn't take a conventional path.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.

I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.