Quotes On Identity

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

I've got a very interesting background.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.