Quotes About Authenticity

For me, you want to be recognized as someone who is real and shoots people straight.

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

It is great to be known for your shoes. It is even better to be recognized for your soul.

Make music from your heart, even if it's experimental or not really common, try it out, it can only get you more recognized.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

You're not going to find me cringe from my record.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

Flawed Design' is a song on the record and it explores why people feel a need to present themselves maybe not necessarily as what they actually are. It seems like in society, a lot of people want to be or try to be perfect.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.