Paloma Faith Quotes

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I get to teach my daughter what I've learned. I don't want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I'll be so proud, because that's who I am, and that's a real person.

Oh! Isn't it jolly To cast away folly And cut all one's clothes a peg shorter (A good many pegs) And rejoice in one's legs Like a free-minded Albion's daughter.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

Madonna influenced me a lot. She's all about really being yourself and not giving a care in the world, and I really take after that.

It's OK to be different, and it's OK to not follow.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

I just want to inspire people to be different.

Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.