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"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
"My history defines who I am."
"I'm a spiritual man and I've always felt connected to Rastafari. I'm not a Rastafarian but I've got so much respect for the lifestyle and religion. It taught me so much and really helped me evolve into who I am today."
"I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think."
"When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals."
"I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am."
"I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is."
"Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life."
"I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'"
"I do not know who I am tonight."
"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."
"Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't."
"I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person."
"The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way."
"I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am."
"I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."
"The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside."
"My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime"
"Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, "Hey, can we shoot some stuff?" or "Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store?" or "Hey, can you..." Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things."
"You can shop the clothing line from the app and everybody who subscribes gets 15% off everything. It's a closer look into my life, what I'm like, what I do. I like to make people laugh, so a lot of the content is me being a doofus, which is who I am."
