Quotes About Authenticity

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

If you're laying in bed next to someone that really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

You've got to make your mark. I just want some hank-panky. You never forget who you are sexy vs Skanky.