Quotes About Self-expression

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.