Patti Smith Quotes

You need to be your own individual.

I am definitely an individual.

Just because something is on trend doesn't mean you have to embrace it. You can look at it and admire it, but that doesn't mean you have to wear black nail polish or red lipstick.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I am my own demographic.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I can't give up my own identity.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.