Quotes About Authenticity

I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.

Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you aren't - is the antithesis of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.

For me, some of the key points of drag are knowing who you are, how you want to go about making people happy with your art, and why you're doing what you're doing.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

I must make my own way, and when I'm into things is when I do them best. If I'm not ready to perform and I do anyway, it's like feeding the people poison.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.

If they hate you, they hate you, but I've always been polarizing, and I love that.

People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I typically don't wear nail polish, as I like a natural look.

I don't feel I ask anything of anybody else that I wouldn't give up myself. I don't think the things I ask are particularly shocking, and I don't think I approach celebrities from the point of view of being a polished journalist.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, 'Hari, why aren't you speaking up about issues?' And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, 'Why can't you just be an actress?'

I'm real. I'm not polished.

Even at our height, we were never very polished.