Quotes About Authenticity

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

We just decided to make our dancing as important as our MCing and our production. It's an element in hip-hop that a lot of people are afraid to use.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Every year I elevate. I just feel like it was God's plan because I don't even be trying hard for real. I just be doing me.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

I've never been an embarrassed, 'never talk about their feelings' sort of person.

Acting is embarrassing.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

People should embrace themselves.

I think it's important to show that... you can't be perfect, and you have to embrace the fact that you're original, and it's what makes you interesting.

You have to embrace your authenticity and your unique perspective as a woman.