Edge Quotes

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.

I don't have any tattoos.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

I've always wanted to get a tattoo.

I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.

In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

If you like how people look when they're all covered in tattoos, then you should be covered in tattoos.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.