John Legend Quotes

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

My public image is none of my business.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

I try not to be topless any more because I don't want that to be my thing.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason.

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

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I have a good face for what I do.

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.