Diana Penty Quotes

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Never judge something by whether it is popular or not. You don't have to follow trends. No one thought William Wilberforce was right at first.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

When I stepped into Bollywood, I had my own way because I knew no other way. People see it as unique but it has more to do with my personality.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I think I have kind of have the same mind-set that Kanye West has. He just likes to do his thing.

I always wanna be able to fight, I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I'm being hard-headed, it's just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin' the same thing that everybody's doin'. And that's the way I've found a way to survive in the music game.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

… the third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.