Amanda Seales Quotes

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible.

The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'