Killer Mike Quotes

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

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

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I think a person has to just be herself.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Remember to always be yourself.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.