Quotes About Authenticity

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.

I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.

I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's was just nice to be able to sit down at an acoustic piano and make some music.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.

As a fan of music, I don't like that artists release one body of music a year and then disappear because it's hard to relate to that. I wanted to be able to bring my fans along on my journey and have them really feel like they're living my life with me.

It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.

You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

I like to shoot from the hip.