Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.