Quotes About Authenticity

I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I'm brutally honest - about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I'm not politically correct. I'm definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don't know any other way.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I think that people sort of stereotype me as the blonde 'Baywatch' girl who's always in a swimsuit, so, I think, to tell my story - that I got up to 175 lbs., was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed - will show that life wasn't always good for me.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn't like to look like anyone else.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I not only want to engage with my fans but want to truly show and express my experiences and potential as a narrator and a story teller.