Amy Gerstler Quotes

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

Being different makes you beautiful.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

I am what I am.

Everyone should just be exactly who they are.

I kind of just took everything that people thought was weird about me and used it as a strength.

Be you. Everyone else is already taken.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.