Quotes About Self-expression

I am who I am. At the end of the day, you've got to be who you are.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

Love to me is a space where I can be myself. And the person has to pamper me, take me out for drives and endlessly listen to my stupid talk.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

You don't have to have a specific style. It can enhance how you want to feel on a specific day.

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.

There's nothing, nobody can pay me enough money and nobody can do enough for me to wear something I don't want.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

The entertainment thing - you're there to entertain, it's not about you - I get that, but for a while I lost my opinion.

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

I have to do films for myself, films that make me learn. I also have to be an entertainer.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

I see myself, ultimately, as an entrepreneur artist that is still making songs.

I actually hate being called an entrepreneur.

I'm not an entrepreneur.

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.