Quotes About Authenticity

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.

I am really just writing about real life.

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I don't have a brother in real life.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.