Quotes About Authenticity

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Plagiarism saves time.

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

I want to start saying bad words all the time!

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.