Quotes About Identity

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who I am.

Memory warps and stretches and shifts to fit the strictures of your life.

It's important for African-Americans to express themselves, period. We're 400 years behind. We should be able to shine whenever and however we feel.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

Ever since I started playing football, I've always taken the number 10 shirt.

I'll retire at Barca. I don't know when - the older I am, the better. I'm sure about that; I can't see myself wearing any other shirt.

I love playing for Liverpool, I am proud to wear the shirt.

Would I like to wear the Napoli shirt in the future? Certainly, they are the team of my city.

I wouldn't want to finish my career with the number 20 shirt; I say everything with that.

Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'

I'm always proud to pull on the shirt and I always will be, whether it's been for the senior team or the Under-21s.

Sometimes, a national team's shirt is heavy.

Seeing young boys wearing your country's shirt with your name on it is the best feeling you can probably have.

I am a proud Englishman and proud every time I pull on the England shirt.

When I see scarves or shirts, I think: 'Why have they got my name on? They could have Pogba or Rashford or Lingard.' When people ask for pictures, I'll think: 'You don't want one of me, you want one with them.'

We're not trying to shock people with our image.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.

I used to be scared of people thinking I was gay but now I'd be shocked if they didn't.

I don't see what's shocking about a man in a dress.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?