I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
A good heart cannot lye
I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"
Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
People who try to be something they are not, the most attractive thing to me are people who are 100% authentically them. And I appreciate and actually always look for people that are different than me in friendships, because that helps me grow.
I may be goofy, I may be corny, and I may be cheesy, but I'm me.
I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.
