Quotes About Self-expression

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.

I want to show the fans that I do have a voice, as well as I'm a great rapper.

No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

My real, full name is Chelsea Chanel Dudley. In my opinion, Chelsea Dudley does not sound like a rapper. So I was like, 'You know what? Imma drop both of those names and just go by Chanel.'

I'm the first rapper ever popping his collar.

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.'

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

I'm not a rapper.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

I guess I did go through my phase where I wanted to be a rapper. I made music, but I was never really good at it.

I wouldn't consider myself a mumble rapper, because I don't know what that is. But when I talk, I mumble. So it's in my music because that's how I talk.

I'd be making a fool of myself if I thought I was a rapper.

All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.

I love color, so it's rare to see me without at least a pop of a hot pink or bold red, even if it's just a lip color pop!

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.