Quotes About Authenticity

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to titillate.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.