Selena Gomez Quotes

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

Every day, the approach to life changes. And that's what music is all about to me.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Writing is the act of discovery.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.