Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

You blows who you is.

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.