Quotes About Self-expression

I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.

People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.

I definitely look up to Rihanna. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her, and she's not afraid of taking risks and trying different things, whether it's fashion or music. She's all about what makes her comfortable.

Whether in light touches or for a more glamorous look, I never go out without make-up - even if it's only a lick of mascara. And I always wear perfume, a light or more intense version.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

I always try to have a fun nail. It's something whimsical that you can pull off anytime.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

It's not normal for a white guy to get corn rows; a lot of people judged me. I like the way it looks, so you have to be confident.

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

If I'm not comfortable, I'm not happy. When I go to the White House, I wear my jeans.

I feel like I don't hit the radio button ever - or not enough, even on the good stuff. I do shout some stuff when I'm mad at myself, but I'm pretty good about not hitting the radio button.