Quotes About Self-expression

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

Natürlich ist es töricht, um jeden Preis von anderen verstanden werden zu wollen. Mir war das früher auch gleichgültig, aber als ich sah, daß Sie an einem Menschen wie mir doch irgendwie interessiert sind, war ich auf der Stelle entschlossen, Ihnen alles zu zeigen.

Action Painting was all the rage then, and everybody was adopting this style and selling the stuff at outrageous prices. My paintings were the polar opposite in terms of intention, but I believed that producing the unique art that came from within myself was the most important thing I could do to build my life as an artist.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.