“Generally everyone is misunderstood, and you realize it’s not your job to make people understand you,” Le Bon said. “It’s your job to work and align yourself with your own integrity. I think that’s even harder to harness when you’re an artist as big as Annie. But she does.”

Drop the need to be understood. You give so much power away by over-explaining or sugar coating your responses to make your truth taste sweeter to every single person. Someone disagrees? Awesome. You can’t step into the light without triggering someone’s shadow.