Quotes About Self-expression

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

There is no Cura Gay, there's just gay. Or not. Or however you identify, and nobody should have say over something so personal and inherent.

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself.

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.

One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.

'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' has helped me shed my inhibitions. Dancing in front of an audience was not easy for me. But I managed it and got progressively comfortable with the audience as the weeks progressed.

If today I have been able to sell myself, it's because I agreed to shed my clothes and my inhibitions. And the more clothes I take off, the greater the number of people who come to see my films.

A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 - things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don't know, somehow it managed to get lost again.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Initially what defined me as a 'man repeller' was my conscious effort to wear clothing that was attractive in my opinion but not necessarily in a man's opinion.

In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.

I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.

Louder Than Bombs' shows our inner shadows.

Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!

Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.

I'm trying to tell men, 'Really show yourself. Do not be macho, because the biggest turnoff for a woman is a macho guy because women, they're very sensitive. They know you're macho because you're insecure.'

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.

To have someone inspire you to be who you are and be unapologetic about it, it's beautiful.

Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.