Bobby McFerrin Quotes

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Onstage, it's all just a heightened and more elaborate version of me. When you're standing onstage, your adrenaline is going, your enthusiasm is at full tilt, and the excitement helps elevate you're attitude. I've always wanted to be as close to myself offstage, being funny with my buddies, and that's what I've worked hard on - being authentic to who I really am.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

I'm totally myself.

I never try to be too sexy. People know when you're not comfortable and trying to be sexy.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

The most beautiful people are those who are truly themselves, and that's what I want to show my fans.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

It's tough to say what separates me from everyone else. I guess it's one of the things that the audience feels as soon as the spotlight hits me. All I can say is that I'm being as true to myself the best way I can.

I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.

I try and be just completely me on stage. I try and put that across, and people seem to get that personality that I have, so I do try not to become two different people and two different faces.

The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

However old you are, however much you love life, however happy you are, how healthy you are, it doesn’t matter. Nothing’s guaranteed. And I think it made me want to take that risk to expose myself as me and not as a version of myself. I don’t become Jessie J. I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I’m still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.