Birdy Quotes

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I'm totally myself.

I really appreciate people who have their own thing going on and stick to it - super authentic. The people who wear something and you're just like "oh, it looks so good!" it's because it's them. They're not trying to be anything.

Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

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

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 think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

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

Just be authentic and be you.

I just want a lady who can be themselves, it's not a cookie cutter criteria that a woman should fall under.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

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.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

Me, I'm trying to sound like me. I don't be trying to sound like somebody.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

I like being known for who I am.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.