Quotes About Self-expression

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I discovered makeup when I was 13, and it changed my life. I started wearing mascara, and overnight, people reacted to me in a very different way - I was more popular and I felt more confident.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.