Quotes About Self-expression

I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.'

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

Style is a form of expression! It's what makes your character your character, to put it in laymen's term.

I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.

Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.