Kevin Jonas Quotes

If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they're 25, I'm probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, 'Hey, you know that guy right there, he's just being himself. I kind of like him for that,' you know, then that's me.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

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

I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

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.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I try to be me to the utmost.

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

I don't ever want to lose my rawness or whatever. That makes a person special.

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.

I can't put anything out that's not me.

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.

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.

When I take up a film or role, I don't want to be fake; I don't want to wear a mask. I want to be myself.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

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