Quotes About Self-expression

Just be you. Play golf. If you get riled up, show it. If you aren't happy about something, it's all right. Just play golf.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

I'm not a great piano player.

The other players are all normal human beings, so just play your best and play free.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.

Please don't compare me to the best player of all time. Let me do my own thing.

I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

People feel like they have to hide their true colors to please the people around them.