Davy Jones Quotes

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.