Alexa Chung Quotes

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?