Quotes About Authenticity

I believe the foundation of love is based on honesty and truth.

We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.

If you have capabilities then the audience will accept you with an open gate. The way you would show them your identity, they will accept you. But you should have the honesty to show your true identity.

As a human, you tend to lose your calm at some point. But I ensured I was being myself through the journey. I feel people liked my honesty and casualness.

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

Honesty is always hip.

Honesty is love.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

There is an honor to what we do, and there are no shortcuts.

I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.

I'm honored to be a part of 'Total Divas' and show the world who Carmella is, not only on 'SmackDown Live' but in real life.

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

I'm always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

My wife loves 'Scandal,' and I'm hooked on 'Homeland.' Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what's ridiculous.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.