The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
Oh! this opponent this collaborator against your will whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
You may keep your beauty and your health unless you destroy them yourself or discourage them to stay with you by using them ill.
Once you go inside and weed through the muck you will find the real beauty the truth about yourself.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.