Quotes About Validation

Mick Jagger visited us backstage and told us how much he liked our show. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts came back too, and they wanted to get their pictures taken with us. Bill Wyman knew our chart positions. I couldn't believe it.

That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people.

With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.

I don't have any godfather, I had to continuously prove myself as a vocalist to survive in the music scene.

To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'

I've always been criticised, but the important, that's what my team thinks. Others, I don't care about their opinion; they speak in the void. Social networks give them a voice, but I don't listen it.

There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style and volume of it, it can be too much.

It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

I was voted three times Germany's national player of the year, and that is decided by the fans. That shows the fans are there for me and believe in me.

There might have been a thousand people who had a better athletic feat than what I did. So for me, just the fact that they gave Canadian Athlete of the Year - and also, I was voted third in the Male Athlete of the Year - the fact that some people did consider what I did an athletic feat, that really makes me feel good.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me.

It means a lot to be voted for awards by the fans and your team-mates.

In fact, when I was voted for the sexiest woman for two years, it was a fabulous feeling.

You should seek approval from yourself.