Quotes About Authenticity

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think there's kind of a comfortability with me onstage - and I think my cool factor is not having one. I'm not extra cool or extra different.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

I've always been really open onstage.

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally.

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

We should all just do what makes us happy and be open.