I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

We aren't cool and never will be.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the...

But if you can't take me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

Customers don't just want another cool product or service, they want to have an experience worth sharing

He says I am sorry I am not an easy person to want. I look at him surprised. Who said I wanted easy? I don't crave easy. I crave goddamn difficult.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Your private self must become the same as your public self.

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it. ~ Amunhotep El Bey

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

You are the right place to which the unknown is always leading me back. I possess nothing worthy to give you. There's only me.

Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to...

So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it...

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

I can see your dirty pillows.

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

Because even this - - being so close to her - - was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her - - he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of...

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity

I wish I were rich enough to endow a prize for the sensible traveler: £10,000 for the first man to over Marco Polo's outward route, reading three fresh books a week, and another £10,000 if he drinks...

Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put...