Quotes About Authenticity

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

In 'Crazy Rich Asians,' Singapore will be seen as it should be seen, without CGI, without the altering of the images to be more Chinese - a representation of Singapore as we know it and love it.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

I'm not that much of a singer.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.