Emily Weiss Quotes

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

Sometimes you have to wear what you want.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

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.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.