Aldous Harding Quotes

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

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?

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

I have to stay true to myself.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I try to be authentically who I am.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it's like my story; it's who I am as a person.

Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.

I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I'm unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I'm able to express that.

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.