John Lennon // "People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine...I always wondered, "Why has no one discovered me?" In school, didn't they see...that all they had was information that I didn't need? I used to say to my auntie, "You throw my fuckin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous," and she threw the bastard stuff out...Why didn't they put me in art school? Why didn't they train me...I was different. I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something...express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into becoming a fuckin' dentist or a teacher."
Johnny Depp // "I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time."
Allen Ginsberg // "To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard."
Neil Gaiman // "Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside... Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have... Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
Lady Gaga // "Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses."
Buckminster Fuller // "I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe."
Pedro Almodóvar // "To tell my stories I really do not need large sums of money...I need an enormous amount of freedom."
Gore Vidal // "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
Robert Mapplethorpe // "If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."
Zadie Smith // "When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like a Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility."
Woody Allen // "All I have in life is my imagination."
Nikola Tesla // "Though free to think and act, we are held together...These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one... I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?"
