Skepta Quotes

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

There are too many conservatives who are terrified of being labelled. They're afraid of being labelled, and they're afraid of being not liked.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.

Labels are for cans, not people.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

Once you label me you negate me.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.