Quotes About Individuality

They're not poodles, they're art.

There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'

I hated going to the mall, I hated shopping, I hated pool parties. It was just the little things that made me realize, like, maybe I am a little different than everyone.

In modelling, some girls have been working for the last 15 years and they are still in the same cycle of what they have been doing. It is too big a pool and I am not going to travel with the herd. I need to pave my own way.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'

There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

I am not trying to be cooler or change my image or get into pop music.

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

I don't have to, like, try to come out with pop music because I feel that that's gonna make me sell a lot more. I mean, I make the music I love to make and that's it.

I listened to a lot of female pop music growing up. I started to realize that there were women out there wanting to stay something, playing instruments and writing their own songs.

There are so many amazing out, gay, black artists who are really great in their own fields, but they aren't necessarily trying to make pop music. I guess my thing is different because I am trying to be part of that world. But doing it my way.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.