Quotes About Self-expression

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

I think because I was Miss World, and I modeled for a little while, I have - I just like heels, actually. I think that's the truth. I'm trying to find an excuse.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor, saying, 'This is where it's happening, people, and if you don't think so, that's cool, but I think you're missing out.' That's my general philosophy, and it's served me pretty well.

I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I'm a very femme gay boy, so what better way to express that than through drag? It truly is the greatest mix of art forms.

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

Mixed people - people of color - we've always been here. But we are really entering a time in which we are proud of our heritage. Proud to say, I'm not one or the other. I'm both.' And that's beautiful.

Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

I do love fashion as a mode of self expression, and I appreciate it for being wearable art.

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

I look up to Floyd Mayweather, but I don't try to be like Floyd Mayweather. He's done great things, he's a role model. But those who say I try to be Floyd can go kick rocks.

I don't model myself on just one person because I don't think that's healthy.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I love modeling.