Quotes About Authenticity

I'm just really excited to expose people to different identities, different conversations but also to kind of reframe how they think about black women just by being myself.

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

You have to find an identity that's true to yourself. You really have to find your own voice.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.

If some idiot with lip gloss is telling me how awesome Lindsay Lohan is, I'm like, 'No, Lindsay is not awesome.'

I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot.

You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.

I think sometimes people look to players to act out, speak loudly, pretty much be an idiot. But that's not me.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

The star system, the idol, the cult of personality is not the only way to be in entertainment.

I just want to show that you don't have to be changing yourself 100 percent to be someone that you're not. You don't have to change yourself to be someone like your idol. You can be someone's idol just by being you. But also, it takes a lot of work and time to be that sort of person.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.