Quotes About Self-discovery

If you remind yourself everyday, where you are from, who you really are, what will happen in the future, and where you exactly stand, then you'll be sane.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.

I take a second sometimes to just remind myself there is no destination in motherhood.

Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm not. And when I go to Korea it's the same thing. I'm constantly reminded that I'm not Korean.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

I would have to say Kelly Clarkson's 'Because of You' would be the song I would associate with coming out. It's really emotive, and personally, it reminds me of my father.

'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.

We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I understand the repercussions of following in my father's footsteps.

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall's ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I am so passionate about representation because, growing up, I didn't see myself, and now people can say, 'I see myself there.' We're all trying to find where we are.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.