Quotes About Self-expression

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

You've got to make your mark. I just want some hank-panky. You never forget who you are sexy vs Skanky.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.