Quotes About Individuality

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that most people think something that is wrong, which is great.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I've never courted popularity.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

I don't wear clothes that I am not comfortable with - clothes will not get you popularity.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

Popularity is the last thing I want.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a combination of their face and your face.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.

I want to portray myself as myself.