Quotes About Individuality

There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist on your own.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

I don't want to be in a stable of guys that have to fight for the spotlight. I want to be with a promoter who is solely focused on me.

Because I get my hair styled in so many different ways, when I get the chance to be natural and just me as a person and not an actress, I like to have a stable, consistent look that reminds me that I'm me.

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack.

I personally don't like guys who are super-muscly and stacked and overdo it in that way. Having a natural, healthy body is the best. It doesn't mean you have to be a certain size, because everybody's different.

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

I want our staff to be able to feel like themselves.

My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

On stage, you can get away with more, so I definitely use that to my advantage and go bolder with fashion, hair, and makeup. I love a smoky eye and long lashes.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

I don't want to get on stage and just be another act.

Having nine brothers and sisters, you have to stand out. In order to get on the stage with me and Shawn and Marlon and Keenan and Kim, you have to be funny. We're not going to let you in the conversation.

We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

There's so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times.

We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of our lives.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

To compare players at different stages in their career shouldn't happen.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.