Quotes About Identity

We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

I feel like a Barbie.

I wanted to be Barbie.

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

Barcelona, of course, it is part of me.

Barcelona is my home. It's impossible to say that I wouldn't return.

I'm from here, spending my whole life in Barcelona.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

I keep getting mobbed in M&S and Debenhams. I feel like Barry Manilow.

I think I sound like Barry White.

Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.