Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

I let my fighting do the talking, I don't have to put on great show and dance to make it bigger than it is.

I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

Once we're done filming, we're all buddy buddy, laying all over each other and grooming each other and just helping each other out. They never show any of that kind of stuff. You can't do RuPaul's Best Friends Race!

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

I'm a gross human being.