Katori Hall Quotes

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Learn what you are and be such.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.