Quotes About Authenticity

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.