Quotes About Authenticity

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

As a stylist, my goal is to help people be the best version of themselves.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Even though I'm a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don't look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of 'Queer Eye,' I feel like I don't fit in that box.

My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.