Macy Gray Quotes

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I know what my identity is.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.