Quotes About Self

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Good music is good music no matter what language you're singing in. I think my fans appreciate the fact that I'm not afraid to be myself. I'm proud to be an Arab.

Singing songs that represent everything I am is just the best feeling in the world.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

It's always been that I feel more masculine in drag than I do out of it. I only get called 'ma'am' out of drag and I only get called 'sir' in drag.

It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call myself James sometimes. I actually use my mother's name as a professional name. But if someone calls me Mr. Murphy or Mr. Gillen, I don't like that. I don't like being called 'mister,' and I don't like being called 'sir.'

I think the fact that Rajamouli sir wrote the character of 'Baahubali' for me has been the biggest compliment in itself.

I'm very close to Sir Alex and have a lot of respect for him, and a lot of respect for myself.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

You will never have the perfect body, and to sit there and compare yourself to another person or what someone else likes - we're the only people that have control of our body. We're the only people that live inside of our body 24/7.

That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.