Just stay true to yourself and true to what you believe.

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.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could...

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.

I go for looks that naturally mesh with me.

I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms...

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be...

If you ask anybody that knows me properly, they know that I give myself fully.

It is refreshing when a driver opens up, decides to be frank and authentic.

I think Miley is so real and every stage you see her in is truly the stage of her life that she's in.

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

I read one article that called me the 'latest pretender to the Led Zeppelin throne.'... If I saw the guy I'd knock him out. Because that's not true - I'm not pretending anything. If my records sell,...

I think that when I started Man Repeller, the Internet was still hungry for authentic content from girls that weren't actresses or supermodels and were just relatable girls who had opinions and outfit...

We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it.

I am a person who dresses to be comfortable; I did not allow the Grammy Awards name and won't allow the title to stop me from doing that.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

I want people to feel like it's OK to be themselves.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.

If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.