Quotes About Self-expression

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.

I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

I always feel like I'm not very impressive in interviews when I talk about what I watch on television.

I just try to be myself in interviews, you do get a lot of people that change, put a front on to try and be something they're not.

My sexuality's something that's intimate. It's not anything that I'm ashamed of.

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.

I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.

Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

When I went out to America, and someone wanted to sign me and invest in me, that was a big moment because, all my life, people have been trying to tell me to be different to what I was.

On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when I'm off stage.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.