Quotes About Individuality

I don't post my work on social media. I don't have to.

I don't want to feel like I have to be a poster child for anything other than being a great artist. I don't take that on board as being my responsibility as a gay man, because I think it's really limiting.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

Krushna never has a problem with me posting sexy pictures on social media or doing bold photo shoots.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Don't judge me by what someone posts on my page on Facebook.

I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.

Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

I still wear makeup, but I'm no longer hiding behind pot after pot of foundation or endless filters on Instagram.

I am not with child - I am with pot belly.

Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.

I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.

What makes clothing so potent is that people incorporate the fashion that they're wearing into their identity. It becomes part of you and how you show yourself to the world.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.

Some people see what I don't see - I'm just so happy to do all of this just being myself. The same thing what you get on the TV, you will see in your local Asda or the pound shop.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.