Quotes About Self-discovery

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

I'm not trying to erase my culture or my faith, I'm trying to be the best version of myself, and it's really hard. I don't think I'm right, I don't claim to be correct, I'm just trying to figure it out and figure out a balance.

The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.

I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn't the kind of counseling to help you - it was the 'Let's make you straight' type - but counsellors can help.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.

In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit.

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

Everyone is on a journey to realize their best selves and their realest selves, and I think that's what creates that community.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

I never took creative writing.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

I went to beauty school when I was 19 because I thought it seemed funny, not because I thought I'd be good at it. I was terrible at first. I gave a girl a perm, and she cried.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.