Lakeith Stanfield Quotes

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

I just lived openly, as loud as I wanted to be, which translated into our music really well.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

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

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.