Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

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

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

It's important to have your own voice.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

When I started acting in my twenties, a director on the set of an action film shouted, 'Just do it like your dad would.' I couldn't. I can only do things as I'd do them.

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.