D'Angelo Quotes

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it didn't look like me.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.