William S. Burroughs Quotes

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

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

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

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.

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

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

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

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

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

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

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

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.