John Engler Quotes

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

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

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.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I don't pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I am who I am.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

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

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.

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

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.