Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put me somewhere else - I'm in an ocean, I'm a surfer. I don't know what I am, I just do it all. And I want to be good at everything.
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
You can call me whatever. Philly Cheese. Bubble Cheese. Whatever.
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.
People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them.
I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.
I'll date whoever is attractive, as long as it's a man. But I'll be like Katy Perry from time to time and kiss a girl.
Some people just don't subscribe to labels.
I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
It's funny. I change depending on what I'm around, and who I'm around. I've always been like that.
Society tells you home is where you grew up or where you settled, but nah. I have friends all over the world. Maybe I have a billion homes.
Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I'm comfortable with all of the above, so I don't really mind at all what people want to call me.
I think Passenger is a bit of an ambiguous thing because in the past, it's been a band, or it's been just me, or a duo or whatever, but I kind of like that as well. I think it's whatever that I'm doing with whoever I'm doing it with!
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.
The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.
