Quotes About Self-expression

I feel designer wear is great and is created after a lot of thought and effort but it's essential that we are confident and comfortable with our fashion choices at all times whether it's on social media or in real life.

If not an actress, I would have been a designer. I like to work on my own clothes and make-up.

Designers do a lot of clothes I would like to wear but I can't. If it had to be made up in my size It would look ridiculous. You can't always wear what's in style. You have to realize what looks good on you.

Growing up, I had trouble finding clothes because I was curvy, and so I would end up designing my own things.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I like to be a little different. I like details. Whatever I wear, I always have a say.

I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

We're trying to get away from the three D's: dresses, dolls and diaries.

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

I don't think I've ever let myself go in public - I don't even know what it would mean. I mean, I let myself go on horseback by really galloping until, you know, I think I'm going to die.

I'm still Lil Xan. You can call me Diego if you want. My second album, I'm going to be full Diego.

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

Own your differences and don't always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

People will always look different from each other in ways we can't control. What we can control is what we allow ourselves to make of those differences.