Quotes about Authenticity

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.