Brenda Ueland Quotes

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

I feel sexy when I'm doing what I love - like when I'm singing or performing or something - that's when I feel the most in control and in my element.

People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.

I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

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

As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.