“I'm myself, not a label.”

“It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say, quite fiercely, "Now that's secret!" And then if I or somebody else looked hurt because they thought, "Well, of course I'm not going to leave the table and pick up the telephone and ring the papers." If Papa saw that we were wounded, he would say, "It isn't that I don't trust you, but I'm labeling it, I'm labeling it." That phrase passed into family history. "I'm labeling it!" Papa would say, quite merrily sometimes.”

“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”

“Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels?”