Emma Watson Quotes

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank's son - inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.