Caitlin Moran Quotes

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

I just love fashion. I think it just expresses who you are so much.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.

There is nothing wrong with fashion - it should be a beautiful expression of who we are.

Style, to me, is an extension of one's personality, a kind of self expression which is very personal. It is an expression of your moods, your personality.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

The website is me. It's a reflection of my personality and my interests. It's the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

My food is an extension of my personality.

It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.

I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.