Quotes About Self-expression

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I've got a tattoo, my mum's fine with that.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.

My first tattoo was when I was 14. I was a bit young, like. I was a big lad so they didn't question my age at the time.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

When I was a kid I always liked scratching myself - making shapes, making drawings, and I always thought I would have a tattoo.

I could try to be the most tattooed person ever, but I don't think that's ever gonna happen.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

Yes, there are probably too many tattoos. But there are too many bad haircuts, too many bad shoe choices, too many bad jeans.

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!