Quotes About Identity

I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.

If you want to play a complex, turmoiled character, then give him a dose of Catholicism.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

It's just being me, man... If you get caught up in people saying you're good and people saying this or that, good or bad, it can kind of wear on you. Or it'll make you feel like you're better than what you are.

There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.

I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.

When we grow older, we start getting caught up with ourselves. We try and live up to an image.

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.