Michael Bastian Quotes

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I think personal style starts from within because it´s a philosophy and an attitude. If you´re honest and true to yourself, you will have the best sense of personal style.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

I like to look good, my friend.

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

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?

When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

I am who I am. I don't try to be something I'm not.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

I don't think the clothes make me, but I make the clothes.

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.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

I play myself on everything I do.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.