Quotes About Authenticity

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

You can't really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.