Quotes About Authenticity

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.

I wouldn't put out anything that I didn't want to ride to.

I think people saw me as someone who was real, and not somebody subject to the criticism and ridicule given to my profession.

If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

If you think about it, it's the worst stage name that anybody can possibly think of, because it sounds ridiculous, but it's my real name.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I always tell it right away when I have a problem.

I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

I don't know that I would say I've felt like a 58-year-old, but I've never felt exactly my age, or in the right place.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

Marriage and films should be done for the right reasons.

There are many people who say all the right things and never do any of the right things.

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.

Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way of pronouncing 'Sawubona.' Enough is enough.