Shakti Gawain Quotes

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.

I have found for me, and it should be the same for everybody, that it is easiest just to be how you are. Be the true you and there is no need to act differently. It has always been like that.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to do. If you say you are a comedian that has been done before. If you just be who you are then you are unique. Everyone is unique.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.

It's important to view fashion as personal and creative - even for brides. When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else, they want you to be who you are. If you never wear blue eye shadow, why would you put it on on your wedding day? If you wear your hair simply, why would you suddenly dye it a different color and get a big 'do? To me it's about respect and self-understanding and honesty.

I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

I would go to games like I go to dinner. If I come and wear something crazy, I'm just trying to be myself.

I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.

Honestly, you cannot go wrong with being yourself.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.