Kesha Quotes

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Rather be dead than cool.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

Cool is just something we've never been.

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn't necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.

I'm not this cuddly, jumper-wearing, good-guy. I'm not David Cassidy. I'm more Johnny Rotten. I'm more Donny Tourette.