Quotes About Identity

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.

There's so much paperwork that goes with changing a name.

A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Before taking up dressage, I'd distanced myself from the Paralympics because I hadn't wanted to be defined by my disability. Then when I grew up and got an office job, things started to change. I'm actually allergic to horses, but I'm even more allergic to paperwork!

There was a time when I would sit with my books and immediately put them away. I'm not dyslexic, but I was like that child in 'Taare Zameen Par.' Coincidentally, the character's name was also Ishaan.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

First CD I bought for myself was 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

I've never been to a Pride parade.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.