Quotes About Identity

I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

I remember being so nervous to tell my little sister. I was like, 'I have something to tell you... I'm gay.' And she was like, 'Cool, do you have a boyfriend?' And I was like, 'Yeah,' and she was like, 'When do I get to meet him?' I was, like, 'Really? It's that simple?' So it went really well.

I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.

Arsenal are my boyhood club.

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

I don't look like Brad Pitt.

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

It's two different brains: the mom brain that's, like, selfless and ego-free, and the on-stage 'Look at me. Like, listen to my song. Hope you like it.' There, it is all ego.

You exist only in what you do.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

If you've grown up in a church, college is a time you may branch away from that.

Every great brand is like a great story.

I definitely have my own brand, and so I never, ever envision myself with anyone else's lips.

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I've become a brand.

It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.