Quotes About Self-expression

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

I don't think I'm defying stereotypes on purpose. If it so appears that way, so be it. For me, I've been brought up that way.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.

I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.

I can do an OK manicure, but I need to stick to singing.

It's not like we grew up hanging around in church every day. We'll always stick to what we feel is right for us to do, and I don't think either of us have had a hard time saying, 'This is who I am, and I'm fine with it.'

I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'