Quotes About Authenticity

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

I've always lived my life the way I wanted and been honest with myself and everyone around me.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.