Sharon Van Etten Quotes

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

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.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

Man, that's all I can do, just be myself.

I try to be me. I don't have anything to hide.

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.