Quotes About Authenticity

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience, you know?

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

People make assumptions about me based on my music. I've literally had people stop me in the street: 'You are so sweet. I bet you haven't had a bad thought in your whole life!' I'm like, 'Really? I hate to disappoint you!'

I could go in and make albums how Master P was doing it every three months but I don't want to do that. I could probably do it and make a lot of money and all that but I would disappoint myself.

For me to just be a face on something, I'd look at myself and be disappointed. I'd rather be the person behind the scenes making the show.

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

Products are a way to connect with - or disconnect from - who you are.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.