Quotes About Genuineness

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.

Maino is an artist that I feel walks what he talks - you can tell what he raps about and what he's been through is very similar. You've got a lot of rappers that rap about what they've heard or seen, but I think Maino is one of the rappers that has actually lived it.

I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

You don't want to be that big shot, some guy who's some... whatever.

That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.

My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.

Bill Haskell was real.

My actual real name is Bianca Blair.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I don't know whether it is a boon or a bane but I can't act. I can just be. To me, that's the beauty of a performance. Otherwise, there is a falsetto, which sounds jarring.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

I don't bother about image.

The bottom line is you need to be authentic, you have to be really honest to yourself.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

I just say what comes to my mind and sometimes it's not the brightest.

The really great brands live on this idea of bringing something that's truly authentic - and then building around that. It's not about trying to be something as much as it being who you are in the best light possible.

The secret to success is to be yourself.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.

The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics - these are all around us and in such abundance that we hardly know where to look for the real thing. Or perhaps there is no real thing?