James Mercer Quotes

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.

There's a lot of fashion that I don't respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I'm doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun.

I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created a style appropriated to my type and my artistical genre.

I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.

For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.

I think it's great to use fashion to develop your personality and express who you really are.

[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.