I’m creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you’re not alone, like you’re not an outsider. Art that is useful.
I loved every minute of my childhood – sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand… Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
‘The Outsider’ is a culmination of a lot of things I’ve been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn’t that be entertaining?
The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne’er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might threaten the trade.
Everyone’s a geek in some way or other. Everyone’s an outsider.
If you’re an outsider looking into my life, you’re thinking, ‘That dude is crazy. He’s literally crazy.’
As a Canadian, I’ve always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions – those were made by actors who are also major figures within national historical traditions for American and British scholars.
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
I love New York, but I’d felt like an outsider here.
If you’re running for office, it’s tough to be an incumbent. It’s tough to run out of Washington. It’s better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn’t help; it more likely hurts.
Definitely, as an Indian, I’m seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I’m in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.
Rasputin’s daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
Our family were outsiders, and I’ve always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
I’m an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.
As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.
‘Mahadev’ got me most recognition. But I have to say that post ‘Kyunki’… I was offered everything under the sun. Being an outsider, who didn’t have to work too hard, I was overwhelmed.
I didn’t get targeted in high school for being a Muslim – it wasn’t that – but I always felt like an outsider in that sense.
I never felt like I was in the grime scene. I was the outsider. So when I veered away from it, I didn’t feel like I was leaving the circle – I felt like I was never in it.
I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.
As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.
TV is a medium where I’ve been an outsider for the most part.
Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn’t meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
As a kid I just felt like an outsider.
Portland and Oregon draw a certain kind of person to it. The city has extraordinarily talented people and sometimes it takes an outsider to see that.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
I am a mom from Michigan. I am an outsider. And I am going to do everything I can to make sure Donald Trump and Republicans everywhere are successful.
I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.
When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.
I want every character be an outsider in some way.
Since I am an outsider, I never knew how it feels to have a superstar in one’s family.
I’m one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I’m always longing to be part of something, you know?
I don’t think I’m an outsider at all.
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
I do know what it’s like to be an outsider.
