Quotes About Self-expression

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.