Trixie Mattel Quotes

If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

I think PR people are caught in this mindset of 'control of the message.' There's a lot more freedom if you give up control. If you allow people to say things that are genuine and admit mistakes and get on.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

I can get behind any story that's willing to tell itself without apology.

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever.

I'm not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.

Trump is an open book. You look at him and all you have to do is listen. He'll tell you who he is. He'll tell you what he thinks. He'll tell you what he's thinking about. He'll tweet it out, and it will be honest and from his heart.