Quotes About Authenticity

As for Roy, I love playing Roy. I'm working at it, but I wish I had less of a care of what people thought of me, so that I could be more like Roy.

When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

We do a lot of work to try to make sure people who we are using as people in the show don't know who we are, because that ruins it.

What I don't like is talk about rumours.

I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

My style is my strength. It is my natural game. That is how I grew up and scored most of my runs.

If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that's a really important idea. Sometimes, whether it's fashion or beauty, things are on-trend, and they look beautiful on the runway, but when I apply them to myself, it doesn't look the way it should.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

I am not Russell Westbrook. I do not have the same name, same body type, stuff like that. So, I'm just going to try to be myself and be the best me and everything else will take care of itself.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

It's very easy to fall into a rut where you're just making things that you don't believe in for other people.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

I'm not willing to sacrifice what I've learned and what I'm about just to get played on radio.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

I feel like my only safety is in being totally true to myself.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

I'm definitely not a saint.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.