Cheri Huber Quotes

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life that way. I wanted to have a bigger, more interesting life.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Honestly, what I think set everything off is when I cut my hair off when I was 16 and dyed it blue. After that, I just felt so free and wanted to experiment with my look.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.