Quotes About Self-expression

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.

I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.

I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.