Quotes About Authenticity

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

I don't live the single life and never really did.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.