Quotes About Self-expression

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

I don't really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it's always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I'm too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.

I finally chopped off my ponytail at the end of middle school, and it was the best decision I made.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

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.

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

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

We just dated the same guy, and that's kind of what it is. It's always a competition thing, and they compare us, but she is Rihanna. She's a pop star, and she's beautiful - she makes great music - and I'm just me, and I'm growing and working into myself. You can't really compare us. We're two completely different girls.

In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I've always wanted to feel - like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

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.

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.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!