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I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.

— Keifer Thompson

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

— Eric Church

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

— Common

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

— Tilda Swinton

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

— Aretha Franklin

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Jillian Rose Banks

My essential identity is that of a writer.

— Athol Fugard

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.

— Adrian Tomine

✗Opposing Perspectives

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

— Justin Bieber