Quotes About Authenticity

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.

'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.

A thing that I'm always worried about doing is putting an image of myself on my Instagram or somewhere else that looks perfect, because that's not who I am, and that's not what I want to preach.

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.

If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.

Girls shouldn't be worried about their cellulite or their rolls. Or anything that makes us real.

I'm not a 'real rapper'; I just like to talk about what I've been through. When I was younger, I just said random, stupid lyrics and censored myself because I was worried about what people would think. But now I've become more mature with my words and uncensored.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Don't worry about what other people are going to say, because they're always going to say something, but, if you're just true to yourself, let that shine through.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.