Mike D Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.