Quotes About Authenticity

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

I'm pretty much the same. I'm consistent. There aren't two mes. There is only one me. I can only be myself, and that's who I always am whether I'm at home or on the carpet.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

I'm a real home girl.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

Don't date a woman who gives you a pager number instead of a home number (she's looking for control).

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.