Neil Tennant Quotes

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Let me do me.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

Sexuality doesn't need to be defended or justified.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.