Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

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

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I don't want to be a personality.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

I want people to see just who I am.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.