Quotes About Identity

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.

I will never apologize for being me.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Yeah, every artist I think should look at themselves as a brand because the more appealing your brand is, the more money you can make off your brand.

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know what appeals to your people better than you do.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

My appearance with disheveled hair and no make-up is the real me.

Here I am getting $50,000 for personal appearances. Everyone wants a piece of me. But my kids think no one could possibly think Dad is cool.

Which other actor has appeared in one-half of a dance show as a girl and in the second-half as a man?