Quotes About Authenticity

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.