Erin Wasson Quotes

When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.