Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I want people to see just who I am.

Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the day, you have to learn to be your own best role model and learn what makes you happy, not necessarily what society thinks you're supposed to be or women that you look up to, what they're doing. I look at that as being a symbol in a blueprint, but never forget that who you are is what's most important.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

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

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I'd completely lost myself. It's kind of funny now that people think I've completely changed myself for Marilyn Manson, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, "This is who I am and this is who I've always wanted to be, and I'm finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be."

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

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.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.