Stephen Covey Quotes

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

I just want to keep on creating stuff that people can relate to and inspire anyone who feels like their voice isn't heard; being relatable and being as authentic as possible is the whole goal of my production company.

For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.

I want to be myself.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

My songs are about who I am.

My music is about identity.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

The experiences I go through... everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.

R&B is everywhere, and I am who I am.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

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.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.