- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hair Quotes
Style, confidence, and not overthinking it.
These quotes connect hair to a wider sense of confidence and comfort with oneself, alongside a lighter thread about fans fixating on appearance over anything else. The subject of self-presentation overlaps with our Beauty quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they made a movie about Bob Dylan, I would love to play a young Bob Dylan; I mean, I've got the wild hair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
- Great Team
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- Nov 07, 2020
My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can't even be bothered to brush my hair, I don't think I should start getting face work... I think it would look a bit try-hard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.
- Confident
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel the most confident when I'm comfortable in workout clothes with my hair up in a ponytail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw Neneh Cherry singing on TV, I was so glad that there was someone of the same ethnicity - and with the same curly hair - for me to look up to.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020