Jay Griffiths Quotes

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

It's okay to be a freak.

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

Be different - without concern for what others think.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.