Quotes About Authenticity

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

I don't have to be glamorous all the time.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I would advise to to a young girl to think about modeling for a really long time before she does it because it's not as easy as it looks - and to just be herself and not let people make her crazy.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.

Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.