I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

It took me years to realize that 'normal' is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters.

Whenever anyone says I've taught them things by me being myself, I'm always like, 'Really? I just thought that was like, Wednesday for me. I was just wearing a kilt and a sleeveless top in a Rotary Club, it wasn't that big of a deal.'

I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.

I'm happy with being myself.

When I'm on the microphone and I'm recording, or onstage, or shooting a video, I'm doing my job. When I'm not, I'm being myself.

When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.

I look at it like this: I'm being myself, everybody else in my industry is faking it.

I'm not trying to be different. To me, I'm just being myself.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

I've never gone out and courted favors. I've never gone out to be booed, either. It's just me being myself.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

Some people see what I don't see - I'm just so happy to do all of this just being myself. The same thing what you get on the TV, you will see in your local Asda or the pound shop.