Andrew W.K. Quotes

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.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

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

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Be that self which one truly is.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.