Rozonda Thomas Quotes

I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.

Don't let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things.

I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.

I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

It turns out nudity is not a problem for me. It's one of those things you think about later and say, 'Yeah, I could do this for a living.'

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

I don't really care what people do.

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm the other girl. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

I don't use labels a lot.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

I will never inflict my values on you.