Quotes About Self

Blakiston was an outcast. He was in exile from himself

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

I grew up in the public eye from the age of 15 and it wasn't a choice I made, it just kind of got imposed on me because of who my dad is.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

I don't feel like I'm really in the public eye because I feel like I'm one of the public.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

I've never been able to control my public image.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.