Amy Ray Quotes

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.