Quotes About Authenticity

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.