Quotes About Authenticity

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.