Travis Knight Quotes

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

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

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.

I always liked strange characters.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

I was a very strange child.

I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society.

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Hello, freaky peoples!

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.