Adam Young Quotes

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.

I used to be someone.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

Who isn't difficult? I'm difficult as an artist.

I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

I know what my identity is.