Quotes About Authenticity

Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.

I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'

With the first two albums and with my social media, I've always been very open about who I am.

There is something about live albums that I enjoy so much more than studio albums from all of my favorite artists. When I am listening to them live, I get to connect so much more to their truth than in studio albums.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

I'm putting out the story of my life, all day, every day. You follow it, you think you know me. People love it. It looks like I'm having the time of my life.

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

You can't be all things to all people.

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.

I can't be all things to everyone.

I feel loved. That's more important to me than being an All-Star, honestly.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

There's nothing more beautiful than just allowing yourself to really be happy and be comfortable in your own skin.