Quotes About Self-expression

I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

Women totally dress for women. If we were dressed for men, we'd be prancing around in tight, tight, tight bodycon skirts and tops all day or really simple jeans and T-shirts.

Beyonce knows what looks good on her and what doesn't. She likes fitted dresses. They flatter her curvy figure. Baggy tops don't work. But for everyday wear, she really prefers jeans and a fitted jacket.

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

I hate wearing make-up, I hate doing my hair. With events and everything, you dress up so much that you get exhausted. So, whenever I go to Delhi, I'm in my dad's oversized shirt and torn shorts.

I may wear sizzling costumes on screen or on the ramp, but back home, I love to be in my torn jeans and sneakers.

Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it's a solipsistic view that people use in order to be selfish.

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

I'm totally myself.

If you start thinking of your image, or what the mysterious 'they' out there are thinking of you, you're in a trap. What's important is that you're doing the work that's best for you.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

They're so obsessed with living to impress that they've forgotten to be alive.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?