Quotes About Authenticity

Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean.

A mi dobo pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of "this is who we think you are."

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you.

Sometimes I'm doing things considered crazy by others, but then my heart giggles. That's when I know I am doing the right thing.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

Although I look like a drag queen's Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.

Because if you go against your heart and your intuition, it reaches you eventually. Then you have to face it, and usually everyone suffers. So it's better to be truthful, and maybe cause a little pain in the beginning. But to know what your truth is and where you should be is always the best.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

What you do isn't who you are.

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.