Quotes About Self-expression

I always chose the byline.

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I don't claim to be a fashionista.

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

For the longest time, I still tried to hold up this act - this nice-guy, superhero, role-model persona - that wasn't really me and wasn't serving me.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

When I go out to the supermarket or when I'm feeling lazy, I just put a little bright lipstick or gloss, and it brightens the skin. It's about enhancing what I have.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

I'm not one of these new supermodel girls on Instagram in bikinis. I'm different, but that's okay.

I'm the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

I looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I wanted to be a star. I said, 'I have to fix my hair.'

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.

I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.

My mum and dad were always supportive of me. They always let me express myself.