Quotes About Individuality

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

I have a great appreciation for body art.

I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I think people are particularly interested to see who the real me is, but... different stories call for different approaches and you change based on the experience you want that person to have.

Hip-hop is not one thing. There are 50 different approaches to making it and showing it.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

I don't need approval from people who don't know me.

I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

I don't seek approval from anyone else.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

People aren't always going to approve or like what you have to say. But as long as you believe in it and are happy, that's all that matters.

Mustafa Ali is who I wanted to see when I was growing up. I'm not wearing anything on my head; I'm not saying anything in Arabic. I'm just going to come out as Mustafa Ali.

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against until I got out into the professional world and met other professional musicians. All I had was my own way of arriving at a song. That was it.

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.