Quotes About Authenticity

If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they don't have to agree with me in general. I'm not here to be loved by everybody. I want to be. But I don't think it's humanly possible to be unanimously loved. But I think I've voiced it clearly that I'm not here to be a baby doll.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

I realized I could be myself, and I wasn't going to pay a consequence for that, and that people liked me for who I am and not necessarily for the generic, sanitized version of myself. And that was very liberating for me and, frankly, a huge confidence boost.

There is no 'generic' Latina.

I'd never wear something that's too generic.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.

Grime must be its own genre.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

If I like a script, I will definitely pick films of different genres, but I won't do something just for the sake of it.

I find real strength in Drake and I think it's because he's so gentle and confident in his delivery. It's like, he's not panicking and overselling himself or trying to lie.

I'm not a gentleman and I'm not a scientist.