Quotes About Self-discovery

School was never for me, kinda.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it's kinda about expressing a side of myself that's always in there but usually doesn't come out. Mostly because I'm too lazy to look that good every day.

When I first came out, I kinda overdid it. I dressed extremely older-boyish, like sagging, and big shirt and big jeans. I was just like, 'I'm gonna go extreme.' And then as I got older, the baggy clothes got a little more fitting to my body, but still masculine.

I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

I've been drawing since about age 5. In kindergarten I drew a picture of my teacher and she loved it! Made a big fuss over me. That's when I realized that, if I drew cool pictures, I could get attention from adults. From that point on I was an attention freak!

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.