Quotes About Authenticity

Love-making is so personal to me that if I do it on screen, it is like I am leaving a part of my soul. I cannot do that.

I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.

My soul is not for sale.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me. This is my life and my soul.

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

I am not someone who will bare my soul on Twitter. If I am angry with somebody, I will abuse them there, if I am happy, I will express it there.

I'm not a shock jock. I never ambush anybody. I just speak my mind and my heart and my soul.

I'm not a big fan of the WWE coming over into our sport and everyone making a show of themselves. It's not that, it doesn't bother me, its good for some guys, but that's just me, its not my personality, I told myself a long time ago I'm not gonna sell myself out, I'm not gonna sell my soul to be something I'm not.

Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I'm very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.

I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

When I get dressed, I don't think about what other people think. I only think, 'Is this me? Is this my truth? Am I able to move through this world with confidence? Am I able to move through this world feeling that I am I?'

I realized that I could save the world and I would still get hate. I'm never going to try and please other people. All I can do is live my truth and be a good person, and I will feel right and fulfilled. That's what matters.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

Speaking my truth. I think that's the number one thing, man. That's my 2018 mantra. Speak your truth, because you hold all that in, it's going to destroy you.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I'm living my truth.

'Kaafir' has come along because I have never been more aligned with my truth.