Quotes About Self-expression

I'm so glad that she lived her life not the way I wanted her to, but rather in the way she believed she should.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.

transgendered experience.

As a Wanderer, you must be true to yourself. You cannot continue to follow the crowd.

Everyone's got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

You know, my sister, she does my hair, and she says, 'Why don't you try changing your hairstyle?' And I go, 'I like it. Why would I change something I like?'

If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.

The best fashion advice I'd say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that's how you're gonna look your best 'cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Prince was a hero. He was the brother, the black man that was a little different. As a kid, you thought, 'Wow, he's different. If he can do it, I can do it.' I read that he was self-taught, so I started teaching myself to play the piano.

I was quite shy. I found my way, I suppose, with food. It's a confidence builder. How else in life do you get that opportunity for someone to say to you, 'Wow, that's really great'? You put food in front of someone and, 'Ahhh, I really enjoyed that!' It's a lift.

I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.