Jamie Clayton Quotes

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

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.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

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 knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?