Penn Jillette Quotes

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

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.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

L.A. is kind of flat these days; I guess Austin and other places are like that now. But that's what I wanted to get across: You could be as crazy as you wanted, and that was OK. You didn't have to be good; people would still come and hear you.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

I like it best when two ideas collide, like when you have a crazed attitude towards women combined with a crazed attitude towards the Vietnamese. I like that. Even if it's not true, I don't care whether it's true or false. I just do it.

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.