Quotes About Identity

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.