Quotes About Self-expression

I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.

I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it's like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I wanna be myself and be the first Jason Jordan. I don't wanna be the second Kurt Angle.

I put so much online, and my heart is the only thing I don't wanna - my heart, I need to myself.

Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.

The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

I appreciate that my fans think I'm classically good-looking and that I have a clean-cut image, but I also want to show other sides of myself.

If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

When I first posted pictures of me braless, there were so many different reactions. I could have been frightened and hide, but I didn't. I wanted people's prejudices to disappear.

Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

I remember the first time somebody played me Janis Joplin. My friend Donna put on Janis Joplin, and she said, 'You're like her.' At the time, I wasn't even a singer; I was a drummer. I just wanted to play the drums.