Jessie J Quotes

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

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

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

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

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.

By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.