Joe Budden Quotes

I've never been more normal than I am now.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

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

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

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 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.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.