Quotes About Genuineness

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

Sylvie steered away from labels. She wanted to be true to herself with every word she uttered, every action she took, and every belief she held.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

be you and not someone else

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

There is no such thing as a lesser truth.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I can promise my fans what you see from me is what you get! No additives, no preservatives.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

I think it's a luxury when you love the thing you're promoting, and then you don't have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would be able to see that. People can see right through that.

I'm out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you're protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can't imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I'd rather just be who I am, and that's good enough.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

O God, you have given to mortals a sure method Of telling the gold that is pure from the counterfeit; Why is there no mark engraved upon men's bodies, By which we could know the true ones from the false ones?