Quotes About Acceptance

I don't really despise anyone.

I despised basketball for a long time.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

I just have to let the story go the way it needs to go and let them take the detours they want to take, and I'll get to the end.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

My father loved me and was devoted to me until he knew I was gay, and then our relationship went south. So I always make sure that I let my sons know that I will love them, no matter what they do or who they become, for the rest of their lives.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore.

I never said, 'no, I'm not going to do that.' Two things stand out that I really didn't care for, there was the one where they dressed me as a cow. Obviously, I didn't care for it, but I knew it was for 'hahas' for fun stuff. And then, when they put me in a diaper as the New Year's baby, I was like, 'ugh, here we go.'

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I'm not afraid to die.

We're all going to die.