Matisyahu Quotes

Style is character.

I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you as a vessel.

I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.

People don't know who I am from my clothes, and they don't need to.

Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what's on the inside. And if you're genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

As a footballer, you're stuck in a uniform - either in team kit or a team suit. I don't really get to show my personality in my job, so style is a chance to show people part of me they don't often see.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

I don't think the clothes make me, but I make the clothes.

I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my skin for you to listen to my songs.

I understand I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't want everyone to look like me. I really only dress for myself.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I'm never concerned about being first or on trend. I only want to feel like my most rad 'me.'

Your fashion depends on who you are and you should wear clothes according to who you are. You should also be comfortable in what you wear.

The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.