Quotes About Individuality

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

I remember wearing a full checkerboard look with checkerboard Vans when I was in elementary school and got bullied so much for it, so it's nice to see it being applauded and enjoyed.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

I grew up in a very small conservative town and as a result there were a lot of people who didn't like what I did. So I would say for anyone who is dealing with bullying, regardless if it's not to do with being a medium, I know what it's like to be alienated and feel different.

Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.

I've always had a big bum.

I'm short, stocky and have a big bum.

If I take back any of the bumps, bruises or scrapes I've been through. I wouldn't be the same person.

I don't have time to sit down and airbush my lumps and bumps. I don't want to either, because they're all a part of my life and what I've been through and who I am.

I don't have anything against long hair. I've known some crew-cut bums.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.

I think a lot of burden is put on someone's middle name, but the reality is that you never use it.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say, 'Right, I've done this for seven years. Who the hell am I as an individual? Do I still want to do this?'

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I think everybody should have the right to do drag if they want to. Even if they look busted!

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.