Astro Quotes

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.

It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet - not the way somebody else thinks I should look.

You should be unique, you should be confident, and that's how people remember who you are. You have to be willing to share who you are and your story.

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

I know who I am and what I want to say and what I'm supposed to sound like.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

I don't do any art to please any people.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing… it's me 24/7.

Don't try and be like someone else. There is already a Michael Jackson, a Janet Jackson, a Beyonce. You be you. And take advantage of the social media platform you have to share. That wasn't around when I started out.

In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.