Noel Fielding Quotes

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

Where's your will to be weird?

My eccentricity became direction.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.

I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

You hear the term "staying grounded" a lot when you're coming up in the movie industry and it's the one word I don't really understand because it implies being tethered almost and I don't like that. Why stay grounded? You might as well become a complete eccentric, float off into the sky and burn yourself on the sun and go crazy.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.