Quotes About Self-expression

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't have that personality.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

Nonconformity is nothing but self-interest in disguise.

I cry too easily," she said in vexation. "I always have. I hate it." "Why?" "It shows weakness." "It shows strength," he said. "Stoic people are the weak ones.

at my age, I will ask whatever I like, and let anyone reproach me if they dare.

It's none of your concern about how I lead my life or who pays for it. I don't care about your opinions, and you have no right to force them on me.

I have nothing to hide I have nothing to protect I have nothing to prove I have nothing to defend Now..who do I chose to be?

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

I know just what it's like to feel different from everyone else. And you know what? Being different can be pretty spelltacular!

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning.

reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

It was true: I was starting to hate girls. Not that I was into the machismo of being a "manly-man." It was just that, for boys, there seemed to be more options available: there were more ways to be a boy and still be accepted, whereas the popular girls all appeared to be cut from the same cloth. Or they were clones or something.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

What do you believe is worse? Living life alone, lacking in popularity or changing yourself to be accepted by others? I think the latter is worse, and I believe it is much more important to think for yourself than to allow others to control you with their opinions. I think it's a sign of weakness to allow others to think for you just to be accepted.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?