Unexpected Combinations Quotes

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

I guess we're all a bunch of mismatched couples - that actually fit

I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.

I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

Bubblegoth is about putting things together that don't necessarily go together.

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

I love people in elements that they're not used to.

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.