Slash Quotes

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.