Francis Chan Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

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.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

There's no right one way to go through life.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Style is to forget all styles.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

It feels good, you know. It feels like you're out there, you know, doin' your own thing, know what I'm sayin'? It's like, people can't really compare it to anything, and that kinda feels good. It opens me up to a lot of different arenas, a lot of different type of situations, you know like Tony Hawk will call. You know what I'm sayin'? I can just image if my songs was about shootin' up, and like sellin' cocaine, I doubt Tony Hawk would be callin' you know?

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.