Quotes About Authenticity

There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing out... the entire thing, every detail, answer the questions and move on.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

Our entire goal is to make something that moves you... if you don't want to call it country, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

When you're a writer, you talk about things that move you, that you feel really deep inside you that's something that moves you, and you hope it'll move people, too.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You're never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can't just perform the moves.

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.