Quotes About Identity

I'm not a shiny pop star.

It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

I never wanted to be a pop star.

What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see us, they don't see us as being black. These are the issues that we should address.

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we've had camp, glam popstars from the 80s - your George Michaels and what have you - but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

I went through all these different phases in my life. And now, I'm finally in a place where I know who I am; I just needed that extra push. I feel really, really good in the position I'm in right now, and I don't feel like I completely neglected my pop-rock sound: I was able to bring it in with my country roots.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Poppy does not identify with an age.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

Sometimes Kellen calls me 'Coach.' Sometimes he calls me 'Pops.'

I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali.

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I wasn't even popular at school.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.