Rachel Kushner Quotes

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

I try to be myself without being anything different.

Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

I've always been Carlos Vela - sincere, original and true to myself.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

I try to be me to the utmost.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes that's really hard to get.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.