Quotes About Authenticity

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy.

My top tip is to go for makeup that suits you, not what you want to look like.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.