Quotes About Authenticity

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself.

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.

My chocolate is special because it's real. My pistachios are from Italy, and the almonds are from Spain. We make our own marzipan. If I sell a product that says 'raspberry,' it's real raspberry. My plan was to make the best product possible and be the least expensive of the best chocolate makers. That's still our position.

...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

If you can be, be yourself.

Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."-Julian Blackthorn

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I'm afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former.

Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.

i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself

Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream?

Be yourself, because you are the perfect YOU!

surround yourself with people who allow you to be yourself, it does not mean be around others who do not have a sense of right or wrong, who lack respect, love and compassion for others.

No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

Allow your humanity to shine.

Authentic kindness has a power greater than rock, paper and scissors combined.

When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart.