Expression of Self Quotes

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

I have to be creative to be happy.

She looks like she could be a dyke if she wanted to be.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

I'm an artist. I'm a gay artist. My preferred identity is, 'any of the sort.' My fans like to identify me as 'she,' but I'm comfortable with who I am, I know who I am and it's all fine with me.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

When I started my blog, I wanted it to be like my house - my own little place that anyone could come to.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

I went with my very being toward language.

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.

Singing songs that represent everything I am is just the best feeling in the world.