Quotes About Self-expression

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

I don't like wearing suits all the time. I don't like looking like the clean-cut kind of dude. I think the coolest guys are the ones who dress how they want to dress.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.