Kelis Quotes

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

People see me with sparkles and fake tan but nobody knows what I am like!

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.