Nick Cummins Quotes

It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him.

Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

People don't want other people to be people.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

I'm still the girl that might get up to dance on the table. It's just who I am, and I'm going to be me and that's it.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.