Quotes About Identity

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

Western music is alien to my ears.

People think I have elfish ears.

My ears are too big.

My songs never really reach the ears of white America.

I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

I have found for me, and it should be the same for everybody, that it is easiest just to be how you are. Be the true you and there is no need to act differently. It has always been like that.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I live in east London, but I'm not cool.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

The way that I dress is the way I've always dressed. The way I've eaten is how I've always eaten. I dress like a 5-year-old, and I eat like a 5-year-old.

I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.

For me, Edge was just a character.