Quotes About Authenticity

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

My parents have always taught me to be myself and to follow my instincts.

Straight talking and going on your instincts was important when I grew up. And being funny.

If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.

Some people will say about me, 'If he was more serious he would play much better tennis.' But I would be different. Maybe I would not have my instincts right. And if I'm too crazy, it's not good either. So the balance is never easy to find. I am as I am.

How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult to the audience.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.

I want to be an integrated woman.

Integrity reveals beauty.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.