Conchita Wurst Quotes

I don't use labels a lot.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

Some people just don't subscribe to labels.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.

It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.