Eileen Myles Quotes

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

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.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.