Quotes About Authenticity

Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

It is so rubbish when comics belittle their children in the misguided belief that it makes them look cool.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

If you're misleading the little homies, you ain't no real big homie to me.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I will not be misquoted!

If you misquote me, I'll come out and be like, they misquoted me. This is what I said. This is exactly how I meant it. Whether you believe me or not, don't really care.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

Not every character that you play is going to be somebody that you like or love, but every character that you play has a story that is worth telling. If you're not the person to tell it, that's one thing. But if you don't want to tell it because you are afraid of the unpopularity of the character, I view that as a missed opportunity.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor, saying, 'This is where it's happening, people, and if you don't think so, that's cool, but I think you're missing out.' That's my general philosophy, and it's served me pretty well.

Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.

You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.