Quotes about Identity

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the list of our inventions, alongside crude oil, pierogi and vodka.

Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.