Dan Colen Quotes

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

I believe everyone has their own place in B'town.

Maybe I didn't take the advantage and become a star and get all the brands so that I could solidify my space in the world.

Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.

If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.

I don't care about labels or anything.

It's real great to be known on TV. I had the opportunity to do something that I always wanted to do, and now I have done it.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I like to be at the top of the ratings.