Quotes About Authenticity

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...

I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.