Quotes About Self-expression

I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

Modeling now is more about who I am rather than becoming someone else. I'm more brazen with what I do. I feel very comfortable in my shoes. I pick and choose what I want.

I definitely pick and choose what I put out and what I want people to know.

I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

No I.D. helped me to just identify certain energies that I might not have really represented yet in the music that he picked up on just in my personality, or in the person he perceived me to be.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.