Seinabo Sey Quotes

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time.