Philip Treacy Quotes

I've always had a love for making things my own.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I have a trend of my own.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

A sense of style can be sort of fun, as long as it doesn't get in the way.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.