Quotes About Self-expression

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.

You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.