Quotes about Authenticity

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

Who creates a fake page? If I want to respond to a person on social media, it has to come from my page with the verified check on it.

I get hit up all the time from every verified rapper with 1,000,000 followers like, 'Yo bro! You got the sauce right now. Send me beats!' Naw, that takes everything away from what I do.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.