Ari Lennox Quotes

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

I was literally so different that I could not hide or be shy.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

Sometimes you have to wear what you want.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

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

I'm starting to find my own style.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

It's important to have your own voice.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

I'ma just rap and do me.

No mater what I wear - whether my choice or not- I guarantee I will be me.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I would go to games like I go to dinner. If I come and wear something crazy, I'm just trying to be myself.