Quotes About Authenticity

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.