FKA twigs Quotes

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.