Quotes About Self-expression

I've never had a stylist or anything. I don't let people style me.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Some people just don't subscribe to labels.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.

Being a drag queen out on the subway or out on the street is still not the most safe thing you can be doing.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I think there's a misconception about the industry, that you have to change who you are to look 'cool' in order to succeed, and that's just not true.

We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

Don't let people change who you are just be who you are with someone else.

I started writing to deal with my childhood abuse and to help me get over it. I began putting my thoughts on paper because I saw a show on Oprah where she said it was "cathartic" to write things down. Being from a substandard public school system, I didn't even know what "cathartic" meant. I had to look it up. So I started writing, but I didn't

even realize I was writing a play. I just used different characters' names so that if someone found my pages, they wouldn't know I was writing about myself. But eventually I let a close and trusted friend read what I'd written, and he said, "Man, this is a really good play.

we as women need to stop judging. Fix it or flaunt it -- I think women should be able to do both.