Quotes About Authenticity

I'm actually a barefoot girl.

I am a more rounded person than you see on television. You don't bark your way to being a success.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

I've learnt I don't have to be a man and I don't have to be a woman, I can just be me.

You can still be a man and have an emotional side.

I like to be around people that's not afraid to be different.

Be less afraid to be different.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.