Kayvan Novak Quotes

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse - actually I don't think it's ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.

My style just is what it is and it's pretty obvious what it is. People seem to like it.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

I always said if I had a son, I was going to give him a unique name.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.