I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.
I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.
I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.
If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.
I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
We so love to stereotype people in this country - I can relate to that myself as I've experienced it. By taking on challenges over the years, I've tried to show people I'm not just some 'posh boy' and that there's far more to me.
I have never gotten into the label thing.
All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.
I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.
For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.
None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.
My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."
It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.
In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me as white.
People label themselves husbands, wives, moms, sisters, and friends before they label themselves Democrats or Republicans.
