Francesca Lia Block Quotes

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.