Quotes About Authenticity

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

One of the biggest things I tell women is not to lose themselves in a relationship. If you're willing to alter yourself to find somebody, it'll never work.

I don't want to alter anything on my body.

I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

I know what my fans have wanted from me this whole time. 'Bad For You' and 'Anarchy' is me finally giving it to them.

I'm no angel. You can see that. But every time I play, I will play the same way because that's the way I am.

My voice is not angel voice.

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

People have wanted me to change and it annoys me. Do we ask Ramos to be someone else? We take him as he is; take me as I am.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

We try to do our best to give honest answers and sometimes those aren't always the best thing.

I think trying to be hot is the antithesis of trying to be funny. If you're aware of what you look like, or you're trying to... you can't be truly funny.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I don't want to be anybody else. I want to be the best version of Christian Coleman that I can.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.