Quotes About Authenticity

I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.