I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

All of my music is honest.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I’m ugly.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

You should never give up your inner self.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

You can be happy where you are.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.