John Waters Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under my eyes. Then I started wearing more baggy stuff.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.

I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

My personal style is ever changing.

I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.