Drake Quotes

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.

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?

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.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

You change the world by being yourself.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

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.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

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've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.