Quotes About Authenticity

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.

Act the way that you want to feel.

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

[Donald] Trump saying I haven't invited [A-listers], I don't want 'em, I want the real people here. Got the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Don't wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.