Jimmy Somerville Quotes

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I am Roe.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

One creates oneself.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.