Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.