I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name and its category as a star? Does Universe know that it is Universe? Does God knows that he is...
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
I hate to be categorized.
Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.
I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
