Quotes About Authenticity

Makeup is something that is meant to enhance your features, not to make you look like something you're not.

I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.

People are fed up with mass production.

I was fed up with doing vampish negative roles, dolled-up with heavy makeup all the time.

I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

A lot of people feed off my energy. I have to keep that up. I can't just be loud one day and the next day saying nothing.

Ring of Honor fanbase is so real and so true. It's like an NXT fanbase; it's the same fanbase. You can't just feed them crap.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

If my parents don't like something, they tell me on my face. You get real feedback from them.

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do.

It doesn't make me feel good to be conniving and manipulative. I can't do that.

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

I don't need to be on the cover of 'Maxim.' But I want to feel good, and I do.

I wouldn't necessarily wear what everybody is wearing unless it makes me feel good.

Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. It becomes political when you leave the house without changing.

You get successful for the person that you are, not for the way you look. If you feel good, you can conquer the world, so you need to feel right inside.

We don't get concerned with stuff like pressure. We just do what makes us feel good.

I just have the ability to make a four-year-old kid and a 50-year-old man feel good at the same time. I don't talk down or up. I'm just myself.

I'm all for making ourselves look good - as long as we feel good, too. Feeling under pressure to look the same means we've gone too far.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.