Quotes About Authenticity

Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway. So you might as well enjoy the process.

Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

and what is remembered is so seldom true

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

In being, there is no becoming, no attachment to a goal. I see that I no longer have to achieve any standard or behave in a certain way in order to become worthy.

Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.

And with every exercise, he reminds us of the one and only rule. Acting isn't pretending. The clue is in the word. Acting is doing. Being. Becoming.

Just be your Self. Don't put your ego where it doesn't belong. Your ego is just a tool to assist you in life. Don't mistake it for who you are. The ego is a distracting backseat driver who thinks it knows everything. Keep it in its proper place. Tape its mouth shut, so you can better enjoy the ride instead of trying to control it.

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

I know now that my avatar all along has been closer to Lisa Simpson than anyone else.

A time came later in my youth when I had to find the bridge between the aspects of playing music that constituted communication with myself, and performance. That's when I got a repertoire together, things that people would like. This is why I've done covers over the years.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

I don't want friends who are kind without really liking me and I don't want anybody who is kind just so as not to be unpleasant.