Quotes About Authenticity

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.

Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.

Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else's life.

If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don't really believe it.

Becareful when impression takes the place of expression in your intention

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most.

Be as you are or be as you seen...no more, no less

Life was never meant to be a rehearsal.

Savor life authentically.

While some people want to be popular, some of us simply want to be brave.