Quotes About Self-expression

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.

I've grown from being around other singers. I've learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own songs and discovering how to tell my own story properly.

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.

All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.

Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.

My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

There are other people who think they know everything and it goes back to the same formula, but I'm not with them. I'm not the same as everyone else and every single day I'm writing a new page in history.

I create, dress, and act however I feel in a single moment.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

I don't like being singled out.

I was eighth in the world in doubles, 67th in singles. Could I have achieved more? Yes, perhaps, but I did it my way.

I think everyone sings in the shower.

I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.