Quotes About Identity

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are. I'm not very up to date on pop culture, and I'm sure I've offended people by being like, 'Oh, what do you do?'

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I am not trying to be cooler or change my image or get into pop music.

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's definitely possible.