Quotes About Authenticity

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!

To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

Young people want you to be real with them.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.