Quotes About Authenticity

I've always considered myself a master in the art of real talk.

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.

As long as I look good, I'm very happy - and as long as I look consistently me.

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy.

Consumers and retailers should always beware of imitators.

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

You can't care what anybody else thinks - even though your life is out there maybe for a bit of public consumption.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

The kind of content I want to be part of is hardly made.