Adam Lambert Quotes

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

One creates oneself.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

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.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I know what my identity is.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.