D. J. Cotrona Quotes

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I love being not cool.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

I'm not the girl next door.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.