Brittany Howard Quotes

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

I've always been a misfit.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.