- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Queer culture was introduced to me at a very early age. It was introduced to me with a semi-positive facet because no one in my family is remotely homophobic or closed-minded.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.
- Great Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mama showed me that I didn't have to change just because someone else saw things differently. She showed me that having differences is normal and that I didn't have to be afraid of the differences in all of us.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that philanthropy is a fancy way to say that you care about others and that you want to serve others. And that's been a part of me for as long as I can remember.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
- Los Angeles
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020