Quotes About Self-expression

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

With the first two albums and with my social media, I've always been very open about who I am.

I really don't align myself with anything.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space where it's safe to fully go there.

When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

I'm short, and I always need to alter everything, and I alter a lot of what I wear.

I write the books to amuse myself.

I'm not growing out my hair just to be androgynous.

I'm no angel. You can see that. But every time I play, I will play the same way because that's the way I am.

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.