Alison Moyet Quotes

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I am more than my measurements. I'm not Ashley Graham just because I'm curvy.

When you see a chick that's not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, 'That girl wants to stick it to the man.' But we don't give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

I'm not barbie, and im alright with that.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

I love being a freak. It's great!

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.