Quotes About Authenticity

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Anytime you come out there and you try to 'prove something,' you're trying to be more than you are.

I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.

I'm just being me. If I'm not enough, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to apologize about it.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

I will never apologize for being me.

My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.