Quotes About Authenticity

I always try to conduct myself in the right way - I always speak honestly and from the heart.

My whole act is confession.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

I can be myself everywhere and be happy and confident and not feel that I am just what I do.

If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

I dress differently, I don't conform to what golf is supposed to be.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it!

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, 'I need to be this or that to fit in.' Now, I'm very much like, 'No, this is what I am.'

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

If my music has power, I don't have to hashtag anything. If it has to connect with someone, it will. That has been my experience.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

'The Voice' is not just a singing competition. It really comes down to how you come off as a person and how you connect with America with your story, and being relatable to people.