Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

I'm not trying to make a brand out of myself.

I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.

I have my own style and my own body language.

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

My job is to express myself.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.