Quotes About Authenticity

My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.

Too many rockers put on the leather pants and shirt first. But if you write good songs, the pants and shirt will follow.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

I think that no woman has to defend her body, and she should just live her truth. It should never be about the number size of her pants, and it should be about what you're doing in the world. What does her brain look like and not her hip size.

I go home and take all of my make-up off. Then I sit in my pants or a tracksuit and watch 'Birds Of A Feather.' That's most nights of my life.

If you have to mask the things you're insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs - whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there's no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.

If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I parade in next to no clothes every day. It's hard not to compare yourself to other people, but I think everyone is different, and that is something we should be celebrating.

I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.