Kristine Opolais Quotes

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.