Quotes About Identity

I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to wear a pink sweater. Some people just do it because they feel like they can do it.

I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

I like to wear jeans, Converse and a sweater, so from the back I can sometimes look like a boy!

Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn't going to come to me.

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

In Europe, everybody does that. Every team goes looking the exact same way every time to play. Depending what is your team, you can go all with the same sweats, you can go all with the same suits, but usually everybody dresses to travel the same.

I can be sexy and feel sexy when I'm in full glam hair and makeup for a shoot. I can also feel really sexy when I'm in sweats and no makeup with my daughter.

I literally get dressed for Instagram to take pictures. I have sweats on every other hour of the day.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

In Sweden, you're not supposed to think you are someone.

I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

We don't do 'dating' in Sweden.

It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.