Natsuo Kirino Quotes

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

Figure out who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

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.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

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.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.