Damon Albarn Quotes

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I want people to see just who I am.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I look completely different from how I did in 'Sinbad,' and it's nice to be myself.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

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