Toyah Willcox Quotes

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.

I am no more the 'chocolate boy.' Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.