These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.
Dylan ThomasI always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.
Beyonce KnowlesI didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.
Mr. TClothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Billie EilishThe hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
Kendrick LamarThere’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.
Eckhart TolleI’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Taylor SwiftI am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Paulo CoelhoCreativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.
Marilyn MonroeWriting is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne DyerRashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.
Lady GagaIt’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
Paulo CoelhoI think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.
Tom BradyI wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David BowieI didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
Joel OsteenToo often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston ChurchillWhen I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.
Bad BunnyIn 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
Kevin GatesWe gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.
Taylor SwiftThe worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerMy mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice WalkerYou may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John RuskinArtistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerI can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.
Bad BunnyI really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.
Billie EilishI think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.
Bad BunnyAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry FordIf a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
Isaac NewtonThe truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brene BrownMen walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brene BrownIf you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William ShakespeareFrom behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. EisenhowerOur whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.
David GogginsSmiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Billie EilishI’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Angelina JolieNo one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?
Bad BunnyFashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
Lady GagaIf you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.
Robert GreeneThe army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis PresleyThe drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor SwiftI have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne DyerMy priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Haruki MurakamiAs a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
BonoSee, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!
Mr. TBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaAge doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David BowieWho I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
Beyonce KnowlesMy age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.
AuroraI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson MandelaIf you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.
Taylor SwiftIs the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David ThoreauIn many ways, I’ve been writing personal stories all my life.
Alice MunroThere’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.
Steven WrightIt’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.
Tom BradyThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelI like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.
Virat Kohli