Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
I'm kind of a brown-rice hippy. I don't think I'd have much success if I tried a dinner party, but I'm not going to have one, and I've never been invited to one, and that's just fine.
All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.
Granted, my childhood wasn't conventional, but it was full of love.
I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.
Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.
My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her
I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
I always looked at it as, the character of Edge gives me complete free reign with no borders, where you can get away with anything, just a complete... no social qualities, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
Every family is a crazy family.
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
Intellectual perverts!
I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.
I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.
