Quotes About Self-expression

I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.

I don't even know how many tattoos I got. I got three tattoos at my first session.

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

My scars from abuse made me insecure. And so I had to cover up my scars with tattoos.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

I did not always know I was gonna get tattoos.

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

Look, I'm still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but I've got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don't kick boxes and I don't scream at other people.

I know for a fact that many people repent and want to do away with their tattoos. It is all marketing and hype and nothing else. Also, tattoos stand out on fair and not wheatish complexion. God has given you a body. Why spoil it?

I have over seventy tattoos.

I like to do meaningful tattoos and it's for myself and not the world. My tattoos are private.

I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.'

Coming into the league, if I would've had money, then obviously I would've had more tattoos.

In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

I really like neck tattoos and hand tattoos. They're just not for me.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

I was very young when I got my tattoos. I was 16 when I got my full sleeve - I rushed into it.

I've had tattoos since I was like 16, but if you would have asked the younger me to get a tattoo that symbolized my sexuality, I would have told you no, because that's how not okay I used to be with it.

People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.

There's really nobody who taught me how to dress.

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.