Quotes About Self-expression

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that's what counts.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?

Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.