Stone Gossard Quotes

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I don't want a 'good' image.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I care about how I carry and present myself.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.