Quotes About Authenticity

What I say is what I feel, whether anyone likes it or not.

Personality-wise, I'm a person who likes to put it all out on the table.

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.

I don't want my fans to think they have to get lip fillers or look like me in any way.

Lip synching in a video is usually my idea of hell.

I used to edit my pictures and make my lips look even bigger in the editing apps.

The only thing I've ever had done is my lips and I'm proud to say I've had my lips done.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.

I haven't said this yet, but my goal for this 'Beautiful' album is not to say, 'I'm beautiful,' or, 'OK, I'm so cool.' This is, honestly, an album written for the listeners.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

What I write is not for little girls.

I don't think I've changed since I was a little kid.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

My philosophy is live life so you won't mind talking about it.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.