KT Tunstall Quotes

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it's about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you're different or quirky, but it's okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.

Being different makes you beautiful.

I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

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

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

I think when you're different you stand out more and I like when people stand out.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

I've learned to appreciate looking unique and not having long, blond locks... at last.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.

I am different. Let this not upset you