Quotes About Self-expression

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I feel that I have my own personality and I don't want to be typed as anyone else.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.

I'm just being me. If I'm not enough, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to apologize about it.

I will never apologize for being me.

My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.

I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

Mustafa Ali is who I wanted to see when I was growing up. I'm not wearing anything on my head; I'm not saying anything in Arabic. I'm just going to come out as Mustafa Ali.

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

I am not an artist.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

But as an artiste, I want to challenge myself because that is what art is all about.