Quotes About Realness

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

It's not all Instagram worthy!

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

When we meet people flesh to flesh we meet people mess to mess.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

This is what I am trying to do across the board," says MacKaye. "If you're going to see me play music, that's the way it will manifest. If you came over to my house, you'd see the way I live. If I make you dinner, you'll see the food I eat.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.