Zooey Deschanel Quotes

People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

All I can say is thank God my stepdaughter's favourite band in the whole wide world is The Beatles. We do have dance parties to 'Wannabe' though.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

I'm tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!