Arlen Specter Quotes

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

I don't like labels.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

No one is any one thing.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Don't classify me, read me.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.