Cody Simpson Quotes

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I want an identity outside of my work.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

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

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

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.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

One creates oneself.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Questions about who we are and who we want t be are increasingly prominent in our society. We have left behind Soviet ideology and there will be no return.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

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

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.