Demetri Martin Quotes

I had begun to abandon bourgeois style of dress. The modern hippies are no pioneers at marking themselves out by unusual apparel …

I like wearing things that other people wouldn't want to wear, to be a bit edgy.

Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.

I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably didn't wear blue jeans and a T-shirt to fancy things, if I didn't do things that make me look like someone who's whacked out of their mind, it'd probably be different. But then again, that's how I wanna dress.

I have a septum ring that I always keep pushed up in my nose, but if I put on a dress and think it's just a little girly for me, - boom! - I pop out my septum ring. Or I might throw on a big pair of hoop earrings - or a diamond choker. That's fancy, but not too proper or elegant because it's still a choker! It's all about making it your own.

I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause.

When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.