Quotes About Authenticity

I don't care about labels or anything.

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

I don't like labels.

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I hate labels.

I don't want to be on any major labels.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

Ladies, it seems, seldom have strong feelings and, if they do, never never let them show. God's thumbs! I always have strong feelings and they are quite painful until I let them out, like a cow who needs to give milk and bellows with the pain in her

Flashy on the outside wasn't how Jesus rolled, and flashy on the inside doesn't come from us. We roll in minivans of clay so that God's awesomeness is clearly recognized for what it is: Him and not us.

The world doesn't need more bling. It needs more clay.

Maybe if we focused less on what we do and more on who — and whose — we are, we can find that super mom status we are really longing for.

I am more human than rational.

Don't hide, child. People who really live have a little wear and tear. But that's good. It's what makes us interesting.

Philosophers of all times have stressed the pivotal significance of being ourselves and the despair attendant on feeling barred from its approximation... "What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

Don't waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don't have to be good, just honest.

All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads...it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to be ready, even desperate, before you propel yourself beyond your own fear.