Walter Kirn Quotes

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

You have to reinvent yourself.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I invented myself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

That's one thing I love about Raven, is that she's always rebuilding herself to be better and stronger.

I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.

That is so very important - that you can develop yourself into anything you want.