Quotes About Authenticity

Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

I'm not going to do red jeans. No green jeans. I don't do Vans and that's the style right now. I don't want to show my socks when I'm wearing jeans.

It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?