Quotes About Self-expression

I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?