Quotes About Identity

Baltimore is definitely still home. It's always going to be home for me.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

It's really hard to name a band.

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

Who would think the Sara Cox of the '90s would be so bang into long johns?

If the crowd wants me to go out there and bang out - and that's not something that I do - then they need to go watch somebody else.

Every bank has to find its own DNA.

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?

When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

I think because of my name and my dad, two things I am so proud of, the bar has always been so high in people's minds. But my bar has always been higher than that.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

My real name is Barbara Klein and I'm from Sacramento.

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.