Rei Kawakubo Quotes

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.