Quotes About Self-expression

I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.

A lot of people think that I am trans but I'm not trans. I am a gay male with hair and nails. So if you say 'he' or 'she' it doesn't matter. I know who I am.

I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.

I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

When we're talking about people not wearing clothes or being naked or whatever, that's a whole lot of people. And I said this: if that's their thing, and they feel comfortable doing that, then whatever; that works for them, but you don't have to go that route if you don't want to. We don't want people to think that that's what you have to do.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names with 'ette' - you know, it looks like a little girl's name.

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt like a bit of a narcissist, always doing just my art - even though I feel like artists are doing a service as well. I needed something a little more literal, instead of writing music and hoping people enjoyed it.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.

I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.

No matter how I cut my hair, when it grows out, it will always grow out into The Bowl. I just naturally have a bowl.

Living your life authentically means living your life being true to what is highest and best within you without misrepresentation.