Neil Young Quotes

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I don't put labels on myself.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

I don't like being pigeonholed. Why would you want to limit yourself to one style or one genre? Labels are something I want to avoid. I've had it my whole life, being pushed into a place, a circumstance or situation I didn't want to be in. My motivation has always been to get away from it.

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

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.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.