Quotes About Authenticity

I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

Being able to express yourself under the name Erika Jayne and saying things people want to say but wouldn't, or doing things that people want to do but don't, or taking that extra leap of faith or pushing the levels of sexuality, or whatever, that helps Erika Girardi stand on her own two feet and be calm and peaceful.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

If I put on a T-shirt that says 'YAAAS,' I want to mean it.

I don't have to put up a front to impress anyone.

I want to put a face to my music, I don't want to be a faceless producer or faceless artist.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the 'Lisa Stansfield sound' and I would hope that when anyone puts on one of my songs they don't even have to listen to my voice to know this is a Lisa Stansfield song, because of the way it sounds.

Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

I don't like putting on airs; that's not my thing. I'd rather just be myself, just connecting to people genuinely.

I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.