Quotes About Identity

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

I don't necessarily view myself as a big - I view myself just as a player, someone who can go out there and contribute to the team from any position.

Not everybody is going to be John Cena. Not everybody is going to be The Rock. You need to be what you can be and contribute like you can.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

That's all I think my job is, to make my own contribution.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

I guess I want to be a voice for the kid. I mean, it sounds quite contrived, but I want to make music that I would have wanted to hear when I was 14.

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

I never thought of myself as a particularly controversial figure.

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.

I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.

I have ended up with quite a conventional marriage and family. But I still hold on to my younger self who didn't know if that's what I wanted to do or not.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

I used to always wear Vans back in the day. I had every type of Vans and Converse there was. I was a Chucks guy and a Vans guy.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I feel the world is over-saturated with products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

I'm not a convicted felon.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.