Quotes About Self-expression

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.

Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.

Honestly, when I was a boy and I was out as a gay boy, I never really dealt with anyone bullying me or anything like that.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I want people to see what I can do. Not see what Steph can do or my dad can do and then assume that's what I do. I want them to actually watch me play and then decide who they think I am.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

I do find that as a curvy girl, as I guess I've sort of been deemed, I don't think you want to run your curves off, because then you're just not yourself.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

I feel that all of us believe that we're rock stars or actors deep down.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

It's important to not have my sexuality define me.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.

There are no limitations. There are no barriers. Nothing can stop you, and nothing can define you but you.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

You need to define yourself in the marketplace.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

I define myself.