Katherine Dunn Quotes

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Conforming is not cool.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Where's your will to be weird?

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Rather be dead than cool.

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

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

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.