Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not after having the lead or being in a blockbuster Hollywood film. I'm after reading the material and loving it. That's all.

I don't want to do only blockbusters.

It's bizarre to say all bloggers are sellouts.

I'm not a real blond... Shocking.

I didn't want to end up in Hollywood having facelifts and my hair dyed blond so I could appear on my own album cover.

I'm not a natural blonde.

I'm a real blonde.

I'm a natural blonde!

I want people to know that when you see me on TV with glossy, bleached blonde locks it's not my real hair.

I am a natural blonde, but not this blonde.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

You blows who you is.

I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

Blues was made for the recessed.

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

I'm too blunt, too matter-of-fact and not PC enough.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.