Quotes About Authenticity

Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

I won't do ready meals because I'm teaching people how to cook. I won't do it no matter how much you pay me, you can say you'll give me £100,000 to do it, but my brand is more important than that.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

As an actor, you've to be honest while giving any shot, the camera is same in any medium, the sound system, too. So, it doesn't matter.

In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.

I was always myself and was respectful to anybody I was around in this business.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.

I think people always respond to real moments.