I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen.

I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.

will become whatever I believe a person wants me to be in order to be liked.

To embrace “WHAT” I AM TO MANY NOT “WHO” I AM.

...And keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if... there weren't any other people living in the world.

People try to accept themselves in order to be different, and try to surrender themselves in order to have more self-respect in their own eyes — or

Be yourself. A lot of times people try to be who they are not. And obviously, having the passion for whatever it is you're doing.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

I was by now used to people being surprised by me and my background, and their surprise offended me. I was always having to be what I was looking for in the world, wishing the person I would become already existed — some other I before me. I was forever finding even the tiniest way to identify with someone to escape how empty the world seemed to be of what I was.

I just want to be not what I am today. I just want to be better than my friends might say. I just want a small part in your passion play.

I'd think, That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me.

I could only be who it seemed I had to be.

well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone