Julian Lennon Quotes

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I'm always very cautious, because I don't want St. Lucia to turn out like everything else. I want to have a personality and be unique in some way that maybe limits our appeal to everyone in the world but makes us more special in some way.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

Find your purpose, find your voice.

Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.