Quotes About Individuality

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

My whole point is like, well, if I'm the pop star, then it should be whatever I am. There's, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Ke$has and me and Pinks. I think what's great about all of us is that we represent something different.

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.

I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.

I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn't have the pop star look.

I don't live the life of a star.

I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

With due respect to women, I would like to say that people should not try to focus much on their outer beauty. We can only gain stardom when we are confident from inside.

Every artist has to remember that they're human beings first, even with the type of stardom placed around their name and aura, they have to still remember that.

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.

It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about.

Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.

When I was young, I realized that people were going to stare at me my whole life, so I might as well give them something to stare at.