J. Tillman Quotes

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

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

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

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

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I'm still very much Kate.

I don't think I'm boring.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.