Quotes About Identity

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I say I'm Metis like it's an apology and he says, 'mmh,' like he forgives me like he's got a big heart and mine's pumping diluted blood

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

They fear as I once feared you, " he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow 'within' and disclose our 'true' self. ("Everybody his story")

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.