Patti Smith Quotes

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

I don't use labels a lot.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'