Maud Adams Quotes

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I've never met anyone that I feel is like me or looks like me. There's just one of Beanie Feldstein.

Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.