Quotes About Self-expression

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

People that don't know me, they might think i'm no one, but I let no one to tell me who I am, but me.

Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

You can't change the music of your soul.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.