Nadia Murad Quotes

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

I don't like myself without a beard.

I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny is probably the most stylish woman ever, and Lady Gaga is amazing - it's fun to watch what she's going to wear next.

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

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

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.

I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.