Quotes About Authenticity

My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

I'm not sure if fans are ready to accept my music, but I no longer wanted to be known as a 15-year-old girl who would sing 'Over the Rainbow.'

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

I was raised to pretend.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.

When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

You cannot provide random content.

Everyone calls me 'the male Jennifer Lawrence,' because I just say things because I'm random, and I do things and I don't care what people think. I think she's hilarious.

I don't go out with random people.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.

Anyone who knows anything about coming out knows that this is something you would never do for the support and a small check from a random organization.

I'm bad at doing social media. I don't feel like I post enough. My content is so random.