Quotes About Authenticity

I'm gonna rap the same whether I'm white, black, or Hispanic, I'm still gonna be me.

Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors.

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

We're very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don't fit on the album, and we don't work on remixing or remastering albums.

Historically speaking, my actions speak louder than any words.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Im sure most artists say this, but my favorite songs are not the hits.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

My hits are not hits.

I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

I realized some of the films I did, after a few hits that I had, they weren't working for me because I wasn't comfortable in the roles I was playing. That's why probably people thought I was a bad actress and I don't blame them.

As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like 'I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.' And I'm always like, 'Absolutely not.'

I am a woman, so I never want to hide that or be like, 'I'm one of the boys,' because I'm not. I am aware of our audience. We always aim for the right combo of not hitting people over head but still getting our message across.

It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.